Biology:Heteroecus sanctaeclarae

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Short description: North American gall-inducing wasp

Heteroecus sanctaeclarae
Mushroom Gall Wasp imported from iNaturalist photo 57935715 on 2 November 2023.jpg
San Mateo County, 2019
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Genus: Heteroecus
Species:
H. sanctaeclarae
Binomial name
Heteroecus sanctaeclarae
(Fullaway, 1911)

Heteroecus sanctaeclarae, also known as the mushroom gall wasp (because it looks like a toadstool cottage in a children's book about woodland creatures), is a species of cynipid wasp that induces galls on huckleberry oaks and canyon live oaks on the Pacific coast of North America.[1][2]

It has also been called the steeple gall wasp because the tops of the galls look like the onion domes of Eastern Orthodox churches.[3] The larval chamber lies in the bottom section at the seam between the two sections of the gall.[1] According to gallformers.org, the bud galls induced by this wasp come in many colors, including beige, grey, pink, purple, and white.[4]

This species may have first been described in 1911 by David T. Fullaway as Callirhytis sanctae-clarae.[5][6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Russo, Ron (2006) (in en-us). Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and Other Western States. California Natural History Guide No. 91 (Rev. ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-0-520-24886-1. OCLC 65207054. 
  2. "Heteroecus sanctaeclarae" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/143871-Heteroecus-sanctaeclarae. 
  3. Bryant, Peter (September 2013). "Inducers, Parasitoids, and Inquilines: Life Inside the Plant Gall". Fremontia: Journal of the California Native Plant Society (Sacramento: California Native Plant Society) 41 (3): 14–19. https://cnps.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FremontiaV41.3.pdf. 
  4. "Heteroecus sanctae-clarae (agamic)". https://www.gallformers.org/gall/1906. 
  5. McCracken, Isabel; Egbert, Dorothy (1922) (in en). California gall-making Cynipidae with descriptions of new species. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. p. 39. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068533523?urlappend=%3Bseq=43. Retrieved 2023-11-03. 
  6. Kinsey, Alfred C. (1922). "Studies of some new and described Cynipidae (Hymenoptera)" (in en). Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press. pp. 96–99. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044107198277?urlappend=%3Bseq=98. 

Wikidata ☰ Q49422399 entry