Biology:Xanthoteras teres

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Short description: North American gall-inducing wasp

Xanthoteras teres
Ball-tipped Gall Wasp - Xanthoteras teres - iNaturalist Photo 170449809, (c) Garth Harwood, some rights reserved (CC BY).jpg
Gall produced by Xanthoteras teres, collected Jackson County, Oregon, 2021
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Subfamily: Cynipinae
Tribe: Cynipini
Genus: Xanthoteras
Species:
X. teres
Binomial name
Xanthoteras teres
Weld, 1926

Xanthoteras teres (formerly Trigonapsis teres), the ball-tipped gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that produces galls on oak trees in Oregon and California in North America.[1][2] The wasp oviposits on the leaves of Oregon oaks and leather oaks, resulting in a somewhat Suessian gall that has an upright stalk topped by a fuzzy ball.[1] The species was first described by Lewis Hart Weld in 1926.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q49558173 entry