Unknown q-rugosa-terminal-club

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown

Hosts: Quercus gambelii / Quercus grisea / Quercus rugosa / Quercus turbinella / Quercus x undulata

Detachable: integral

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Location: stem

Form: stem club

Cells: monothalamous

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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.

Field notes on gall-inhabiting cynipid wasps with descriptions of new species

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Disholcaspis sileri (Bassett) [See ID Notes]

The gall of this species, described from an unknown oak in southern Utah, is a monothalamous stem swelling resembling the eastern club gall on white oak. Galls which agree with the Bassett types have been collected by the writer on Quercus gambelii, grisea, undulata, and reticulata at the following localities: Wetmore, West Cliff, Trinidad, and Morley, Colo.; Wagon Mound, Rowe, Tijeras, Socorro, Magdalena, Nogal Canyon, and Fierro, N. Mex.; Prescott, Flagstaff, Williams, Grand Canyon, and in Santa Catalina, Chiricahua, and Huachuca Mountains, Ariz. In all cases the collecting has been done at such a time that the maker has not been reared. The flies probably emerge just as the new wood begins to harden in midsummer.

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Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7610635#page/308/mode/1up

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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-rugosa-terminal-club on iNaturalist. You can view them here: