Biology:Dryocosmus minusculus
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Short description: North American gall-inducing wasp
Dryocosmus minusculus | |
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Galls induced by Dryocosmus minusculus, Coyote Valley Open Space District, San Jose, California, 2017 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Cynipidae |
Genus: | Dryocosmus |
Species: | D. minusculus
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Binomial name | |
Dryocosmus minusculus Weld, 1952
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Dryocosmus minusculus is an abundant species of cynipid wasp that produces galls on oak trees in California in North America.[1][2] Commonly known as the pumpkin gall wasp, the wasp oviposits on the leaves of black oak group.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
- ↑ "Pumpkin Gall Wasp (Dryocosmus minusculus)" (in en-US). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/120147-Dryocosmus-minusculus?locale=en-US.
Wikidata ☰ Q123171925 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryocosmus minusculus.
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