Unknown q-douglasii-basket-gall (agamic)

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: red, yellow
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance: rare
Shape: cup
Season: Summer, Fall
Related:
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, on leaf veins, leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Unknown #6
Basket-gall wasp

Host: Quercus douglasii

Galls of this wasp occur on the dorsal surface on veins and at the outer margins of leaves of blue oak. Galls are monothalamous, generally rounded, somewhat basket-shaped, and measure 3 mm high and wide.

Summer-fall, unisexual

Range: Redding, CA

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


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