Callirhytis congregata
| Callirhytis congregata | |
|---|---|
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| Hollister, California, April 2023 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Callirhytis |
| Species: | C. congregata |
| Binomial name | |
| Callirhytis congregata (Ashmead, 1896) | |
| Synonyms | |
| Andricus congregatus | |
Callirhytis congregata, formerly Andricus congregata, the sausage flower gall wasp, is a species of hymenopteran that induces galls on the catkins of coast live oaks, interior live oaks, and canyon live oaks in California in North America.[1][2] This wasp is considered locally common.[2] William Harris Ashmead described Andricus congregatus as producing a gall like a "rugose, yellowish brown woody swelling, containing numerous cells growing apparently from the extreme tips of very slender twigs of Quercus chrysolepis, the gall appearing to have a long peduncle".[3]
References
- ^ "Callirhytis congregata". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
- ^ a b Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. p. 88. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. S2CID 238148746.
- ^ "DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW CYNIPIDOUS GALLS AND GALL-WASPS IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM by William H. Ashmead, Honorary Custodian of Hymenoptera" (PDF).
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