Melikaiella fructuosa (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Melikaiella
Detachable: integral
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Season: Fall, Winter, Spring
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Location: fruit
Form: hidden cell
Cells: polythalamous
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Callirhytis fructuosa
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 eastern United States
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Callirhytis fructuosa
Quercus coccinea, falcata, ilicifolia, marilandica, palustris, rubra, texana [buckleyi], velutina
Acorn galls
A stony-hard, many-celled mass inside mature acorns in the fall, crowding the cotyledons.
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On Q coccinea. Also on Q velutina, rubra, palustris, marilandica, ilicifolia, falcata, texana [buckleyi]. In August the red squirrels cut open the affected acorns for the well-developed larvae. From acorns of Q marilandica from Batesburg SC another Callirhytis emerged the second spring Apr 17-May 3.
- LH Weld: (1959) Cynipid galls of the eastern United States©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/273718#page/111/mode/1up
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