Callirhytis perfoveata
Appearance
Callirhytis perfoveata | |
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Santa Clara County, April 2021 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Cynipidae |
Genus: | Callirhytis |
Species: | C. perfoveata
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Binomial name | |
Callirhytis perfoveata (Kinsey, 1922)
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Callirhytis perfoveata, formerly Andricus perfoveata, the leaf ball gall wasp, is a species of hymenopteran that produces leaf galls on oak trees in California in North America.[1] The wasp oviposits on coast live oak, interior live oak, and occasionally on California black oak, and induces what appears to be a roughly spherical gall embedded within the leaf.[2] The gall is initially bright green and turns brown as it ages.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ball Gall Wasp (Callirhytis perfoveata)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ^ a b Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. p. 97. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. S2CID 238148746.
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