Heteroecus q-chrysolepis-vase-gall (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Heteroecus
Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, green
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance: rare
Shape:
Season: Summer, Spring
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Alignment:
Walls:
Location: bud, upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Heteroecus sp. B
Vase-gall wasp
Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis
This wasp induces rose-pink, monothalamous, leaf galls on canyon live oak. Galls of this wasp occur on the dorsal surface on the midrib, with only one per leaf.
Range: Mount Shasta, CA
Heteroecus sp. C
Rosy-tear-gall wasp
Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis
The rose-pink, monothalamous galls of this wasp occur on the ventral midrib of canyon live oaks. Unlike the vase gall of Heteroecus sp. B, this gall has a rounded tip.
Range: Mount Shasta, CA
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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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 q-chrysolepis-vase-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
