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Family Cynipidae; Club Vein Gall Wasp; (shown with Quercus vacciniifolia)   

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Family Cynipidae
Club Vein Gall Wasp
(shown with Quercus vacciniifolia)
Photographer: Joyce Gross

ID: 1111 1111 2222 1547 (2007-12-07)

Copyright © 2007 Joyce Gross

 
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  • date of photo  Nov 24, 2007
  • location   Off Hwy 4 near Sky High (Calaveras County, California, US)
  • family Cynipidae
  • order Hymenoptera
  • class Insecta
  • notes   The wasp that makes this gall has not yet been scientifically described. It is listed in Weld's Cynipid Galls of the Pacific Slope (1957, fig. 99) and in Ron Russo's Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and Other Western States (2007). An exit hole is visible in this gall. On Quercus vacciniifolia (huckleberry oak).
  • camera   Canon 30D; MP-E 65mm macro lens
  • photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Insect


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