Unknown q-garryana-plate-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, red, tan
Texture: hairy
Abundance:
Shape: spangle/button
Season: Summer
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, on leaf veins, between leaf veins, leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Unknown #8
Plate-gall wasp
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Hosts: Quercus garryana, lobata

The round, convex, platelike, monothalamous leaf galls of this wasp occur on Oregon oak and valley oak. These summer, unisexual generation galls develop on ventral veins on leaves, with sometimes a dozen or more galls per leaf.

Range: northern Central Valley, CA

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


Further Information:
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