Andricus coortus (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, red, green
Texture: pubescent, hairy
Abundance: common
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: bud, stem
Form: abrupt swelling, stem club
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Club Gall Wasp
Synonymy: Name
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Callirhytis coortus
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.
New American Cynipids from galls
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Andricus coortus, new species
Gall (pl. 1, fig. 5). — A bud gall in the fall consisting of 1 to 7 elongated, vertical, parallel cells each with a dense, thick, dark-colored wall, the whole forming an elongated or rounded mass projecting above the bud scales, the surface not smooth, covered with short pubescence.
Hosts. — Quercus douglasii and Q. dumosa.
”- LH Weld: (1944) New American Cynipids from galls©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7735402#page/21/mode/1up
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