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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Cynipoidea » Gall Wasps (Cynipidae) » Callirhytis

Genus Callirhytis

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Live Oak Gallfly - Callirhytis quercuspomiformis Live Oak Gallfly - Callirhytis quercuspomiformis Ruptured Twig Gall Wasp? - Callirhytis perdens Gouty Stem Gall? - Callirhytis quercussuttoni Help ID cocoon please - Callirhytis cornigera Oak tree gallls made by who? - Callirhytis seminator nest from insect - Callirhytis quercuspunctata oak gall - Callirhytis serricornis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)
Superfamily Cynipoidea
Family Cynipidae (Gall Wasps)
Genus Callirhytis
Explanation of Names
Author: Förster 1869
Numbers
Nearctica lists 105 species
Life Cycle
They have a complicated life cycle with agamic and sexual generations and with different galls in different parts of the plant (leaves vs. stems). It may take three years to complete the whole cycle. In most cases very little is known.1
Internet References
University of Florida
1) Biology of Callirhytis cornigera (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) and the Arthropod Community Inhabiting Its Galls Environmental Entomology. 29(3):551-559. 2000
Contributed by Joyce Gross on 23 September, 2007 - 3:16am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 25 February, 2009 - 8:20pm

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