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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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Small, ovate-globular galls along either side of the midrib on the lower side of leaves of Quercus havardii. Each gall is densely covered in short, tan-white hair, with a ring of black hair surrounding a bare hilum at the apex. Observed containing unemerged adult wasps in western Texas in December.
Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value q-havardii-blackeye-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here: