Biology:Callirhytis quercusfutilis
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Short description: Species of wasp
| Callirhytis quercusfutilis | |
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| Sexgen gall, external | |
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| Sexgen galls, internal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Callirhytis |
| Species: | C. quercusfutilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Callirhytis quercusfutilis (Osten-Sacken, 1861)
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Callirhytis quercusfutilis, the oak wart gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. [1]
Ecology
Range is central and eastern North America. [1]
The agamic generation lives in the scurfy bark of a host white oak tree root or trunk base. [2]: 344 Host species include white oak, swamp white oak, overcup oak, bur oak, swamp chestnut oak, chestnut oak, dwarf chinkapin oak, and post oak. [3]
The sexual generation induces galls on host white oak leaves, between leaf veins and projecting slightly above both surfaces of the leaf. [2]: 343 Internally, thin radiating fibers connect the larval chamber to the wall of the gall, providing the larva with nutrients supplied by the host. [4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Callirhytis quercusfutilis". California Academy of Sciences. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/918682-Callirhytis-quercusfutilis.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Alfred Charles Kinsey (1920). Life histories of American Cynipidae. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122602. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/213997#page/27/mode/1up.
- ↑ "Callirhytis quercusfutilis (agamic)". Gallformers. https://www.gallformers.org/gall/836.
- ↑ "Callirhytis quercusfutilis (sexgen)". Gallformers. https://www.gallformers.org/gall/1129.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q111160175 entry
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