Cynips quercus catesbaei

Andricus catesbaei

Cynipidae

Dryocosmus

Quercus incana

Alabama

Arkansas

Florida

Georgia

Louisiana

Mississippi

North Carolina

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Texas

Virginia

Quercus laevis

Dryocosmus quercuscatesbaei (sexgen)

Cynips q. catesbaei n.sp.

Slight wavy swellings at the base of tender new shoots, hardly visible to the naked eye.

On the CYNIPIDOUS GALLS of Florida (1881)

Bassettia catesbaei

Quercus catesbaei [laevis], cinerea [incana] 
Stem galls, cells hidden under bark
"Slight wavy swellings at the base of the new shoots, hardly visible to naked eye. Reared Apr 28." Type host [Quercus catesbaei (laevis)]. Entered from lit.

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Described from Q catesbaei [laevis]. "Slight wavy swellings at the base of the new shoots." Type galls show cells in twig with only exit hole to indicate location. Bred Apr 28.

Cynipid galls of the eastern United States

Bassettia quercuscatesbaei (Ashmead 1881)

Hosts: Quercus laevis

[Sexual generation stem swelling galls found in Florida in the spring.]

Using gall wasps on oaks to test broad ecological concepts

Callirhytis quercuscatesbaei Ashmead, 1881

[transferred from Bassettia to Callirhytis]

Biology--Only the sexual generation is known which induces small stem swelling-like galls on Q laevis. Adults emerge in April.

Distribution--FL

Review of the Nearctic gallwasp species of the genus Bassettia Ashmead, 1887, with description of new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)