Biology:Melikaiella flora
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Short description: North American gall-inducing wasp
| Melikaiella flora | |
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| Morro Bay State Park, 2021 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Melikaiella |
| Species: | M. flora
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| Binomial name | |
| Melikaiella flora (Weld, 1922)
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| Synonyms | |
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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]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Russo, Ronald A. (2021) (in en-us). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. pp. 96. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691213408/html.
- ↑ "Live Oak Petiole Gall Wasp (Melikaiella flora)" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1041305-Melikaiella-flora.
External links
Wikidata ☰ {{{from}}} entry
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