Callirhytis congregata

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Callirhytis congregata
Hollister, California, April 2023
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Genus: Callirhytis
Species:
C. congregata
Binomial name
Callirhytis congregata
(Ashmead, 1896)
Synonyms

Andricus congregatus

Callirhytis congregata, formerly Andricus congregata, the sausage flower gall wasp, is a species of hymenopteran that induces galls on the catkins of coast live oaks, interior live oaks, and canyon live oaks in California in North America.[1][2] This wasp is considered locally common.[2] William Harris Ashmead described Andricus congregatus as producing a gall like a "rugose, yellowish brown woody swelling, containing numerous cells growing apparently from the extreme tips of very slender twigs of Quercus chrysolepis, the gall appearing to have a long peduncle".[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Callirhytis congregata". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
  2. ^ a b Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. p. 88. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. S2CID 238148746.
  3. ^ "DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW CYNIPIDOUS GALLS AND GALL-WASPS IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM by William H. Ashmead, Honorary Custodian of Hymenoptera" (PDF).

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