Genus Disholcaspis

Classification · Identification · Works Cited

Oak Bullet Gall Wasp, newly emerged, showing wing - Disholcaspis

Beaked Twig Gall Wasp - Disholcaspis plumbella

Coral Gall Wasp - Disholcaspis corallina

Disholcaspis quercusmamma galls - Disholcaspis quercusmamma

Oak Rough Bulletgall - Disholcaspis quercusmamma

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 Disholcaspis

Identification

In Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States, Weld (1) writes that "The Genus Disholcaspis with a dozen species in the area is known from agamic females only which emerge in late fall from detachable stem galls on white oaks. Where they oviposit is not known nor is the alternating generation for any one of the species known. Yet such an alternate undoubtedly exists in an entirely different sort of gall on young leaf, bud or flower."

Works Cited

1.	Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States By Lewis H. Weld

Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 6 August, 2005 - 12:48pm
Additional contributions by Joyce Gross, ceiseman
Last updated 9 December, 2009 - 5:28pm

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