Callirhytis quercusbatatoides (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Callirhytis
Detachable: integral
Color: gray
Texture: stiff, bumpy
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Fall
Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: abrupt swelling
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
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Callirhytis batatoides
Callirhytis quercusbatatoides
Previous name
Cynips quercusbatatoides
Plagiotrichus batatoides
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.
On the CYNIPIDOUS GALLS of Florida (1881)
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Cynips q. batatoides n.sp.
Abrupt, potato-like swellings of the twigs and branches, varying in size and form, from 04. to 0.7 and sometimes an inch long, and 0.3 to half an inch or more broad; the outer surface is rough of the same color as the bark; internally it is white and in consistency not unlike a potato. No kernels; each insect separated by a very thin, hardly perceptible parchment-like substance. In on of the galls I counted fifteen gall-flies.
”- William Ashmead: (1881) On the CYNIPIDOUS GALLS of Florida (1881)©
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