Callirhytis petrina (agamic)

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

Hosts: Quercus hypoleucoides

Detachable: Integral

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Season: Fall

Alignment: integral

Walls:

Location: fruit

Form: hidden cell

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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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.

Further Information (3)

Gallformers ID Notes - Gallformers Contributors (2026)

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Cynipid galls of the southwest - LH Weld (1960)

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Notes on American Gallflies of the Family Cynipidae Producing Galls on Acorns: With Descriptions of New Species - LH Weld (1922)

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Callirhytis petrina (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 →

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Callirhytis petrina (agamic)