Callirhytis perdens (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Callirhytis
Detachable: bothi
Color: brown, yellow, purple
Texture: stiff, ruptured/split
Abundance: abundant
Shape: spindle
Season: Fall
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Ruptured Twig Gall Wasp
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Andricus perdens
Plagiotrichus perdens

Plant Galls of the Western United States

Calirhytis perdens
(Andricus perdens)

Hosts: Quercus agrifolia, kelloggii, wislizeni

While the gradually tapered galls are bark-colored, the linear black fissures that develop easily distinguish them from other stem galls.

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


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