Callirhytis parva (sexgen)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Callirhytis
Detachable: detachable
Color: green
Texture: hairy
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
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Walls:
Location: flower
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Notes on cynipid wasps, with descriptions of new North American species

Callirhytis parva, new species

Host.--Quercus imbricaria

Gall.--On the staminate flowers dropping to the ground about the middle of May. Somewhat globular, greenish-white, covered with coarse sprawling pubescence, 3-4 mm in diameter, single or in clusters. Fleshy at surface, but harder inside; usually two-celled.

Locality.--VA, MO

Collected may 16, flies cut out of galls June 11.

- LH Weld: (1922) Notes on cynipid wasps, with descriptions of new North American species©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7305399#page/467/mode/1up


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