Unknown q-oblongifolia-red-topped-cup-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: red, white, yellow
Texture: bumpy, hairless, mottled
Abundance: rare
Shape: cup
Season:
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Alignment:
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Red-Topped-Cup-Gall Wasp
Unknown #54

Hosts: Quercus oblongifolia

Galls of this species or variety occur just off the ventral midrib on Mexican blue oak leaves. This gall has a yellow base column that is covered with small white bumps. As the column rises, it flares out into a round, dark red bowl.

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


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