Raman, A., & Singh, S. 2014 Remarkable gall-inducing Beesonia dipterocarpi (Hemiptera: Beesoniidae) and their equally remarkable galls on Dipterocarpus tuberculatus (Dipterocarpaceae) described from the Indian subcontinent in the 1920s. Oriental Insects 48(1-2): 108-122

Keywords:

  • description
  • ecology
  • taxonomy
  • Notes: The authors of this paper, got access to the correspondence between the forest officials of Burma in the 1920s and the staff of the entomology division of FRI-D, then led by Beeson, pertaining to the finding of the Chrysanthemum flower-like galls on the shoots of D. tuberulatus. In this paper, we have chronicled the events that led to the description of these galls and the inducing insects, using copies of letters archived at FRI-D in the context of this material.