Unknown q-oblongifolia-little-red-cup-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, pink, red
Texture: hairy
Abundance: occasional
Shape: cup
Season: Fall, Summer
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between 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

Andricus scutella [Russo's photo and description of A scutella do not entirely match those of Weld, who does not mention hair and specifies that the gall does not have an inrolled edge, which Russo's photo does]
Little-red-cup-gall wasp
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Hosts: Quercus oblongifolia, turbinella

Galls are hairy, rose pink to red-brown, and measure 2 mm high and wide.

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


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