Callirhytis confusa (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Callirhytis
Detachable: integral
Color: yellow, green
Texture: hairless, succulent
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment:
Walls: thin
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: free-rolling
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy: Pending...
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 quercus confusa n. sp.
Quercus laurifolia
Another curious gall, constructed on the same principle as above [Dryocosmus quercuslaurifoliae] but smaller and not projecting through the leaf, was detected the middle of April.
Galls.--Small, globular, slightly elongate, greenish-yellow, succulent galls, attached to the principal vein on the under surface of the leaf, hollow inside with a pupa-like kernel; fly escaping by perforating a hole through the upper surface of the leaf. Diameter transversely .06; vertically .10 inch.
”- William Ashmead: (1881) On the CYNIPIDOUS GALLS of Florida (1881)©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32798#page/312/mode/1up
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