Xanthoteras q-oblongifolia-crystalline-tube-gall (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Xanthoteras
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, white, tan
Texture: bumpy, hairy, hairless
Abundance: frequent
Shape:
Season: Fall
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Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, on leaf veins
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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Xanthoteras sp.
Crystalline-Tube-Gall Wasp
[Russo notes that his Crystalline-Tube-Gall Wasp differs from Xanthoteras pungens only in being found on the lower rather than the upper side of the leaf.]
Hosts: Quercus oblongifolia, pungens, turbinella
The beautiful, tubelike, monothalamous galls of this wasp occur on the ventral lateral veins on leaves of Mexican blue, sandpaper and shrub live oaks. The surface is coated with crystalline granules, which appear to be crusted hairs.
Range: Payson, Santa Catalina mountains, AZ
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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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-oblongifolia-crystalline-tube-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
