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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Ormyridae » Hemadas » Blueberry Stem Gall Wasp (Hemadas nubilipennis)

Species Hemadas nubilipennis - Blueberry Stem Gall Wasp

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Blueberry Stem Gall Wasp - Hemadas nubilipennis Blueberry Stem Gall Wasp - Hemadas nubilipennis gall - Hemadas nubilipennis blueberry gall - Hemadas nubilipennis blueberry gall - Hemadas nubilipennis Gall on high bush blueberry - Hemadas nubilipennis Wasp from stem gall, lowbush blueberry - Hemadas nubilipennis Wasp from stem gall, lowbush blueberry - Hemadas nubilipennis
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 Chalcidoidea (Chalcidoid Wasps)
Family Ormyridae
Genus Hemadas
Species nubilipennis (Blueberry Stem Gall Wasp)
Explanation of Names
Hemadas nubilipennis (Ashmead 1887)
Range
e. NA (NS-ON to FL-IN)(1)
Food
Primary hosts: Loxaulus vaccinii (Cynipidae) & Colias spp. (Pieridae) on Vaccinium (Ericaceae)(1)
Remarks
Causes stem galls on blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), in which the larvae develop. Adults emerge in the spring.
Several other chalcidoids have been reared from these galls, including Ormyrus vacciniicola.
Internet References
West A., Shorthouse J.D. (1989) Initiation and development of the stem gall induced by Hemadas nubilipennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) on lowbush blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium (Ericaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 67: 2187-2198 (access)
Works Cited
1.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 12 April, 2009 - 9:09pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 13 February, 2013 - 1:50pm

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