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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Gall Wasps (Cynipidae) » Oak Gall Wasps (Cynipini) » Disholcaspis

Genus Disholcaspis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Habitat · Works Cited
Oak Rough Bulletgall - Disholcaspis quercusmamma Gall? - Disholcaspis quercusmamma Gall? - Disholcaspis quercusmamma Desert gall on Quercus turbinella (Holly Oak) - Disholcaspis Gall on Quercus virginiana, dissected - Disholcaspis cinerosa Galls - Disholcaspis Disholcaspis quercusomnivora Disholcaspis globosa
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 Disholcaspis
Explanation of Names
Disholcaspis Dalla Torre & Kieffer, 1910
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."
Habitat
Inhabit oak bullet galls(2)
Works Cited
1.Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States
Lewis H. Weld. 1959. Privately printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2.Plant Galls and Gall Makers
Ephraim Porter Felt. 1940. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., Ithaca NY.
Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 6 August, 2005 - 12:48pm
Additional contributions by Joyce Gross, Mike Quinn, ceiseman, Marci Hess
Last updated 13 October, 2023 - 11:58am

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