Biology:Acraspis quercushirta
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| adult female, Aug 31 2020 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Acraspis |
| Species: | A. quercushirta
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| Binomial name | |
| Acraspis quercushirta Bassett, 1864[1]
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Acraspis quercushirta, the jewel oak gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae, [2][3] tribe Cynipini (oak gall wasps),[4] found in North America.[5][6]
Hosts are white oaks, including bur oak, Gambel oak, Chapman oak, swamp chestnut oak, and chestnut oak.[1]
Ecology and Life History
Like most oak gall wasps, this species has two generations per year - one asexual (or agamic) and one sexual, with each generation producing distinct galls.[1] The wingless females of the asexual generation emerge from their galls in fall and climb up an oak tree to oviposit in bud scales thereby inducing the gall development.[1][7] These inconspicuous galls and their larval inhabitants overwinter and continue their development in spring before adults emerge in late May and early June.[1] These sexual generation adults mate and the females oviposit on veins on the underside of host leaves.[2][8] The induced gall is detachable, oval in shape, and the color can range from white to yellowish to tan or brown. The surface is fissured into facets that end in a short, hard point, reminiscent of jewelry.[9] These galls typically fall with the leaves in autumn with the asexual female adults emerging shortly thereafter.
gall, Jun 24 2022
gall, Aug 30 2021
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 , Wikidata Q113387522
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 , Wikidata Q100986199
- ↑ , Wikidata Q34453785
- ↑ , Wikidata Q102114229
- ↑ "Acraspis macrocarpae Bassett". https://www.gbif.org/species/127062773.
- ↑ "Acraspis macrocarpae Bassett, 1890". Discover Life. https://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Acraspis+macrocarpae.
- ↑ Weld, Lewis H. (January 2002). "Gall-inhabiting Cynipid Wasps". Proceedings of the United States National Museum (United States National Museum) 68: 58. https://books.google.com/books?id=qoFQAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA11-PA58.
- ↑ Felt, Ephraim Porter (1940). Plant Galls and Gall Makers. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., Ithaca NY. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89041294323.
- ↑ "Species Acraspis macrocarpae - Jewel Oak Gall Wasp". https://bugguide.net/node/view/313824.
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