| Dryocosmus castanopsidis | |
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| San Mateo County, California, 2022 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Dryocosmus |
| Species: | D. castanopsidis |
| Binomial name | |
| Dryocosmus castanopsidis (Beutenmueller, 1917) | |
Dryocosmus castanopsidis, also known as the chinquapin flower gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that induces galls on the flowers of giant chinquapin and bush chinquapin on the west coast of North America. The husk and flesh of the galls are red, with a "golden bloom" on the husk, and the central larval chamber has a green tint.
References
- ^ Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. p. 240. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. OCLC 1239984577. S2CID 238148746.
Further reading
- Nicholls, James A.; Melika, George; DeMARTINI, John; Stone, Graham N. (2018-12-19). "New species of Dryocosmus Giraud gallwasps from California (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) galling Chrysolepis Hjelmq. (Fagaceae)". Zootaxa. 4532 (3): 407–433. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4532.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30647357. S2CID 58651113.
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