Dryocosmus brown-eye-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Dryocosmus
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, white
Texture: hairy
Abundance: rare
Shape:
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Dryocosmus sp.
Brown-eye gall wasp

Host: a hybrid white oak

Galls are in small clusters on the ventral leaf midrib of a hybrid white oak in spring. Individual chocolate-brown monothalamous galls protrude from the tightly bound mass of white hairs.

Range: Santa Rosa Mountains, CA

- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©


Further Information:
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value brown-eye-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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