Heteroecus pacificus (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Heteroecus
Detachable: bothi
Color: red
Texture: hairless
Abundance: common
Shape: conical
Season: Spring
Related: Heteroecus pacificus (agamic)
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
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Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Beaked Spindle Gall Wasp (bisexual generation)
Synonymy: 
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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.
Cynipid Galls of the Pacific Slope
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Unknown gall.
Quercus chrysolepis
Leaf galls, integral
Conical, red, 2-10 mm long, surface above it depressed. Fig 170. The terminal cluster of similar galls in Fig 126 may be the same thing.
Fig. 126. Q. chrysolepis. This is thought to be a cluster on an aborted leaf. A single one on a leaf is shown in Fig. 170.
Fig 170. Conical, red, on under side of leaf of Q. chrysolepis; above it the leaf surface is depressed. Single or in a cluster on aborted leaves so that it looks like a stem gall (Fig.126). Full-grown in June. Those collected in September to December have been empty.
”- LH Weld: (1957) Cynipid Galls of the Pacific Slope©
Reference: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924018313555&view=1up&seq=85
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