Callirhytis quercuscornigera (sexgen)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Callirhytis
Detachable: integral
Color: white, green
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape:
Season: Summer, Spring
Alignment: supine
Walls: thin
Location: petiole, lower leaf, leaf midrib, on leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Plant Galls and Gall Makers

Plagiotrochus cornigerus O. S. Bisexual form

Ovoid, whitish leaf galls, 1.5 - 2.5 mm long, along midrib or major veins.

Adults in July.

On Q. rubra, Q. palustris, Q. imbricaria, Q. ilicifolia.

Ovoid, whitish galls, along midrib or larger veins, 1/15 to 1/10 inch long, on Spanish oak, pin and scrub oaks, early summer, sexual generation, gall wasp

- EP Felt: (1940) Plant Galls and Gall Makers©

Reference: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89041294323&view=1up&seq=37


Further Information:
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