Callirhytis serricornis

Callirhytis serricornis, formerly Andricus serricornis, the kernel flower gall wasp, is a species of hymenopteran that produces galls on oak trees in California in North America. The wasp oviposits on coast live oak and interior live oak and induces a gall shaped roughly like a bottle or vase. The gall is brown in the first generation, and red and green in the second.[1][2]

Callirhytis serricornis
Callirhytis serricornis in Napa County, July 2022
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Genus: Callirhytis
Species:
C. serricornis
Binomial name
Callirhytis serricornis
(Kinsey, 1922)

References

  1. Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. pp. 88–89. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502.
  2. "Callirhytis serricornis (Kernel Flower Gall Wasp)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-20.


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