Biology:Melikaiella flora

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Short description: North American gall-inducing wasp

Melikaiella flora
Live Oak Petiole Gall Wasp imported from iNaturalist photo 161985415 on 23 October 2023.jpg
Morro Bay State Park, 2021
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Genus: Melikaiella
Species:
M. flora
Binomial name
Melikaiella flora
(Weld, 1922)
Synonyms

Callirhytis milleri

Melikaiella flora, formerly Callirhytis milleri, the live oak petiole gall wasp, is a species of hymenopteran that produces leaf galls on coast live oak, interior live oak, and canyon live oak trees in California in North America.[1][2] The gall often subsumes the entire petiole and occasionally part of the leaf body.[1] Pregnant females of the second generation oviposit on acorns; these acorns are usually dropped by the tree and become food for squirrels, deer, Steller's jays, etc.[1]

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