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124 Diplolepis quercus-folii err. det. Houard, 1922, Zoocécid. Afrique, etc. 1:130, 133?

[NOT Cynips Quercus folii Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1:553 (♀, ⊕).]

[NOT Diplolepis quercus Fourcroy, 1785, Ent. Paris: 391 (♀, ⊕) (acc. Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910, Das Tierreich 24:351).]

FEMALE.—Whole body with more bright rufous than in the other varieties, the mesonotum entirely punctate and hairy but less heavily so than in folii; the anterior parallel and lateral lines fairly prominent; the scutellum distinctly smoother anteriorly than posteriorly; the foveal groove largely smooth at bottom; the mesopleuron entirely punctate and rugose; the tip of the second abscissa of the radius usually triangulate or bent; the length 3.0 to 4.4 mm. (acc. Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910), averaging nearer 3.8 mm. Figure 95.

GALL.—Perhaps not as soft as the dried gall of folii; smaller, up to 10. mm. in diameter, quite regular in shape, rarely becoming distorted in drying, always smooth and naked, usually yellowish brown to light reddish brown in color, sometimes tinted with rose and irregularly marked with reddish spots, not becoming much darker when old or dried. On the leaves of (usually) Quercus pubescens. Also recorded from Q. humilis prasina (acc. Tavares 1902), Q. lusitanica mirbecki (acc. Houard 1922), Q. lusitanica broteri (acc. Tavares 1902), Q. lusitanica faginea (acc. Tavares 1902), Q. pseudo-suber (Kieffer acc. Houard 1908), Q. toza (acc. Tavares 1902), Q. macranthera (Rubsaamen acc. Houard 1908), and Q. conferta (Paszlavszky acc. Houard 1908), some of these records probably representing distinct varieties. Figures 136, 137.