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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Rose Gall Wasps (Diplolepididae) » Rose Gall Wasps (Diplolepis) » Diplolepis spinosa
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Gall wasp female? - Diplolepis spinosa - female
Copyright © 2008 Tony H

Gall wasp female? - Diplolepis spinosa - Female
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
May 14, 2008
Size: approx. 8 mm
I'm guessing the large abdomen would make it a female gall wasp (ie. emerged from Rose galls I collected)

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Gall wasps and flies - Diplolepis spinosa - male - female Gall wasp female? - Diplolepis spinosa - female Male Gall wasp? - Diplolepis spinosa - male
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Contributed by Tony H on 8 July, 2008 - 11:14pm
Last updated 3 January, 2010 - 3:25pm

Moved
Moved from Diplolepis.
… Ken Schneider, 9 September, 2009 - 10:18pm login or register to post comments

D.spinosa
female
… Miles Zhang, 9 September, 2009 - 10:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Diplolepis.
… Ken Schneider, 16 September, 2008 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Galls.
… Ken Schneider, 16 September, 2008 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Gall Wasps.
… Ken Schneider, 2 September, 2008 - 9:56am login or register to post comments

 
Ken, did you mean to move this from
Cynipidae? Seems like that is where it belongs if that is what it is as Eric states below.
… john and jane balaban, 2 September, 2008 - 7:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Hi J&J - I thought -
perhaps incorrectly (see my comment on the first image in this series), that one of our gall experts (Joyce or Charley?) would be more likely to see it on the galls page and might leapfrog directly to a cynipid species from the appearance of the gall and the type of host plant... Feel free to move it back to Cynipidae, though - it was just an idea...
… Ken Schneider, 2 September, 2008 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Still hoping!
Still keeping tabs on this nice set of images. If we don't hear from the gall experts in a few days, we should probably move these back to the Gall Wasp pages...
… Ken Schneider, 9 September, 2008 - 5:27pm login or register to post comments

I agree.
I agree this is a cynipid wasp.
… Eric R. Eaton, 1 September, 2008 - 1:17pm login or register to post comments

 
HELP!
hey..whats the common name for this?i'm doing a bug collection project..which is due tommorrow at eight a.m!!and i don't have this one!!please help..i can't find it anywhere!!
… caitlinemerson1995, 27 October, 2008 - 8:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Out of season
These gall wasps are out of season here in Canada, since it is fall and getting cold. The only remanence of these wasps at this time of year would be the galls themselves with the larvae that will overwinter and emerge next spring. Good luck with the project!
… Tony H, 28 October, 2008 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

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