Andricus pedicellatus, the hair stalk gall wasp, is a fairly common species of cynipid wasp that produces long spindly leaf galls on blue oaks on the Pacific coast of North America.[1][2]
Andricus pedicellatus | |
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Hair stalk galls, Mount Diablo State Park, 2018 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Cynipidae |
Genus: | Andricus |
Species: | A. pedicellatus
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Binomial name | |
Andricus pedicellatus (Kinsey, 1922)
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Synonyms | |
Dryophanta pedicellata |
References
edit- ^ "Hair Stalk Gall Wasp (Andricus pedicellatus)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ "California gall-making Cynipidae with descriptions of new species / by Isabel McCracken and Dorothy Egbert". HathiTrust. p. 14. hdl:2027/mdp.39015068533523. Retrieved 25 October 2023.