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Sponge Gall from Artemesia Tridentata - Rhopalomyia pomum

Sponge Gall from Artemesia Tridentata - Rhopalomyia pomum
Elephant Tree area, Anza Borrego State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
March 21, 2010
Size: ~ 2 cm diam

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Sponge Gall from Artemesia Tridentata - Rhopalomyia pomum Sponge Gall from Artemesia Tridentata - Rhopalomyia pomum Eulophid wasp - male Eulophid wasp - male Eulophid wasp

Moved
Moved from Tetrastichinae.

Moved
Moved from Eulophidae.

Moved
Moved from Eurytomidae.

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Moved from Sponge Gall Midge.

Moved
Moved from Eulophidae.

Moved
Moved from Sponge Gall Midge.

Moved
Moved from Chalcidoid Wasps.

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The BG Info Tab for this gallmaker provides an internet reference to Hufbauer (2004), who reported six chalcid wasp parasitoids (pp. 326-327) : "a Pteromalidae, a Eulophidae in the subfamily Euderinae, an Orymiridae in the genus Ormyrus,...a Eupelmidae in the subfamily Eupelminae and two Torymidae: one in the subfamily Toryminae and one in the genus Megastigmus."

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