Heteroecus flavens (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Heteroecus
Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis / Quercus vacciniifolia
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, pink, red, yellow, green
Texture: hairy, hairless, spotted
Abundance: common
Shape: globular
Season: Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between 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.
California Gall-making Cynipidae: With Descriptions of New Species
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Callirhytis flavens, new species
Gall--Subglobular, found singly, in clusters, or several grown together on leaves projecting above and below and sometimes inhibiting the growth of the leaf. The color when mature is light green, sometimes tinged with red. Internally composed of a pithy substance. Diameter 2-5 mm.
The type material was collected by Miss Georgie Bentley in May. Adults emerged in the breeding room during the summer. [Only a female is described.]
Host: Quercus vaccinifolia, chrysolepis
Range: Eldorado County, Santa Clara County CA,
”- Mary Isabel McCracken, Dorothy Barnes Egbert: (1922) California Gall-making Cynipidae: With Descriptions of New Species©
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