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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) » Andricus » Small Oak Spindle Gall Wasp (Andricus chinquapin)

Species Andricus chinquapin - Small Oak Spindle Gall Wasp

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Andricus
Species chinquapin (Small Oak Spindle Gall Wasp)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Figites chinquapin Fitch, 1859
Remarks
Produces stalked galls emerging from veins of leaves in the white oak group (Quercus bicolor, Q. alba, Q. prinus, Q. stellata (1); Felt (2) also lists Q. macrocarpa). Adults emerge from galls in spring. (1)
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 Charley Eiseman on 10 May, 2011 - 6:54pm

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