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North American gall-inducing wasp

Heteroecus sanctaeclarae
San Mateo County, 2019
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Genus: Heteroecus
Species: H. sanctaeclarae
Binomial name
Heteroecus sanctaeclarae
(Fullaway, 1911)

Heteroecus sanctaeclarae, also known as the mushroom gall wasp (because it looks like a toadstool cottage in a children's book about woodland creatures), is a species of cynipid wasp that induces galls on huckleberry oaks and canyon live oaks on the Pacific coast of North America.

It has also been called the steeple gall wasp because the tops of the galls look like the onion domes of Eastern Orthodox churches. The larval chamber lies in the bottom section at the seam between the two sections of the gall. According to gallformers.org, the bud galls induced by this wasp come in many colors, including beige, grey, pink, purple, and white.

This species may have first been described in 1911 by David T. Fullaway as Callirhytis sanctae-clarae.

References

  1. ^ 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. pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-0-520-24886-1. LCCN 2006009332. OCLC 65207054.
  2. "Heteroecus sanctaeclarae". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  3. Bryant, Peter (September 2013). "Inducers, Parasitoids, and Inquilines: Life Inside the Plant Gall" (PDF). Fremontia: Journal of the California Native Plant Society. Vol. 41, no. 3. Sacramento: California Native Plant Society. pp. 14–19.
  4. "Heteroecus sanctae-clarae (agamic)". www.gallformers.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  5. McCracken, Isabel; Egbert, Dorothy (1922). California gall-making Cynipidae with descriptions of new species. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. p. 39. hdl:2027/mdp.39015068533523. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via HathiTrust.
  6. Kinsey, Alfred C. (1922). "Studies of some new and described Cynipidae (Hymenoptera)". Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press. pp. 96–99. hdl:2027/hvd.32044107198277. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via HathiTrust.
Taxon identifiers
Heteroecus sanctaeclarae


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