Biology:Diplolepis nodulosa

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Short description: North American gall-inducing wasp

Diplolepis nodulosa
Nodular Gall Wasp imported from iNaturalist photo 139986212 on 7 November 2023.jpg
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, California, 2021
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Diplolepididae
Subfamily: Diplolepidinae
Genus: Diplolepis
Species:
D. nodulosa
Binomial name
Diplolepis nodulosa
(Beutenmuller, 1909)

Diplolepis nodulosa, also known as the rose-stem gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that induces bud galls on wild roses in North America.[1] This galls induced by this species have a number of inquilines and parasitoids.[2] D. nodulosa is assigned to a clade of Nearctic stem gallers within Diplolepis along with Diplolepis californica, Diplolepis oregonesis, Diplolepis spinosa, and Diplolepis triforma.[3]

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