Heteroecus q-chrysolepis-hair-capsule-gall (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Heteroecus
Detachable: detachable
Color: green, tan
Texture: hairless
Abundance: occasional
Shape: linear, spindle
Season:
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Alignment:
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, on leaf veins, between leaf veins, leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy: Pending...
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.
Hair-capsule-gall wasp
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Hosts: Quercus vaccinifolia
Smooth, pointed, monothalamous leaf galls on huckleberry oak. The pointed larval capsules sit atop a hair-thin stalk that emerges out of a ventral lateral vein.
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
Further Information:
Pending...
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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-hair-capsule-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
