| Burnettweldia washingtonensis | |
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| Sonoma County, California, 2023 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Burnettweldia |
| Species: | B. washingtonensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Burnettweldia washingtonensis (Gillette, 1894) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Disholcaspis washingtonensis | |
Burnettweldia washingtonensis, formerly Disholcaspis washingtonensis, the fuzzy gall wasp, is a species of hymenopteran that induces stem galls on white oaks on the Pacific coast of North America. The detachable galls have a little stem or neck, are gray or beige and fuzzy, and measure about 8–10 mm in diameter. The larval chamber is located at the center of the ball, the interior of which is otherwise chocolate brown. Older galls may appear pitted. The locally common galls induced by this wasp are sometimes mistaken for the galls induced by Besbicus conspicuus.
References
- ^ Russo, Ron (2006) . Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and other Western States. California Natural History Guide No. 91 (Rev. ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-520-24886-1. LCCN 2006009332. OCLC 65207054.
- "Burnettweldia washingtonensis". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
- ^ Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. p. 105. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. OCLC 1239984577. S2CID 238148746.
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