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Xanthoteras teres
Gall produced by Xanthoteras teres, collected Jackson County, Oregon, 2021
Scientific classification
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. 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. The species was first described by Lewis Hart Weld in 1926.

References

1. ^ Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. pp. 122–123. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. S2CID 238148746.
2. "Ball-tipped Gall Wasp (Xanthoteras teres)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
3. "Species Xanthoteras teres - Ball-tipped Gall Wasp". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2023-10-23.

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