Paracraspis guadaloupensis (Fullaway, 1911) comb. rev.

Callirhytis guadaloupensis
Acraspis guadaloupensis

Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis

[A photo of the gall appears on page 69 of the pdf]

Gall. (Fig 208). Convex-flat, disc-shaped, monolocular, detachable galls on the underside of Q. chrysolepis leaves, usually on lateral veins. The gall is up to 5.0–6.0 mm in diameter; occurs singly or up to 2–3 galls on one leaf (Fullaway 1911). Biology. Only the asexual generation is known, inducing galls on Q. chrysolepis. Galls start to develop in May on the previous year’s leaves; adults emerge from late winter to early spring with emergence holes usually off center.

Range: CA

- George Melika, Juli Pujade-Villar, James Nicholls, Victor Cuesta-Porta, Crystal Cooke-McEwen, Graham Stone: (2021) Three new Nearctic genera of oak cynipid gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini): Burnettweldia Pujade-Villar, Melika & Nicholls, Nichollsiella Melika, Pujade-Villar & Stone, Disholandricus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Nicholls; and re-establishment of the genus Paracraspis Weld^©