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Genus Callirhytis

Galls - Callirhytis quercusventricosa Ball Gall Wasp? - Callirhytis perfoveata Gall on chestnut oak - Callirhytis quercusfutilis fluffy oak gall - Callirhytis piperoides oak gall - Callirhytis furva What insect created these eggs? Found on Oak leaves. - Callirhytis lanata galls - Callirhytis Callirhytis furva
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Cynipoidea
Family Cynipidae (Gall Wasps)
Tribe Cynipini (Oak Gall Wasps)
Genus Callirhytis
Explanation of Names
Author: Förster 1869
Numbers
Nearctica lists 105 species
Food
Make galls in oak twigs(1)
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
"Callirhytis quercusclaviger (Ashmead) and Callirhytis cornigera (Osten Sacken) " from the University of Florida (HTML version or PDF document)
Biology of Callirhytis cornigera (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) and the Arthropod Community Inhabiting Its Galls Environmental Entomology. 29(3):551-559. 2000
Works Cited
1.Plant Galls and Gall Makers
Ephraim Porter Felt. 1940. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., Ithaca NY.
Contributed by Joyce Gross on 23 September, 2007 - 3:16am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Aaron Schusteff, Marci Hess
Last updated 13 October, 2023 - 11:57am

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