Heteroecus q-chrysolepis-club-vein-gall (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Heteroecus
Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis / Quercus vacciniifolia
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, red, black
Texture:
Abundance: abundant
Shape: linear, spindle
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Alignment:
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib, on leaf veins, leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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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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Quercus chrysolepis, vacciniifolia
Leaf galls, integral
Cell on a prolongation of a vein beyond the leaf margin, spindle-shaped. Fig 99.
Fig 99. On Q. chrysolepis. Occurs on Q. vaccinifolia also. Often more slender than the photo. Usually single, sometimes 4 on one leaf. Those collected in summer and fall have been empty. Never reared.
”- LH Weld: (1957) Cynipid Galls of the Pacific Slope©
Reference: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924018313555&view=1up&seq=84
Further Information:
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value q-chrysolepis-club-vein-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
