Callirhytis hopkinsi (agamic)

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Family: Cynipidae | Subfamily: Cynipinae | Tribe: Cynipini | Genus: Callirhytis

Hosts: Quercus imbricaria

Detachable: Detachable

Color: brown, yellow, green

Texture: honeydew, hairless

Abundance:

Shape: globular

Season: Summer, Fall

Alignment: erect

Walls: thick

Location: fruit

Form: pip

Cells: monothalamous

Possible Range:

Not an occurrence map: this shows where this gall's hosts grow. In most cases the gall has not been documented throughout this area.

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Attached to young acorn of present year

Cynipid galls of the eastern United States - LH Weld (1959)

License: Public Domain / CC0

Callirhytis hopkinsi (agamic) agamic: The agamic (AKA unisexual) generation of an oak gall wasp (cynipini) species consists of only female wasps, which do not mate before laying the eggs which become the male and females of the sexual generation (sexgen). View in glossary →