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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) » Callirhytis » Callirhytis frequens
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twig gall on Gambel's Oak - Callirhytis frequens
Copyright © 2011 John Pearson

twig gall on Gambel's Oak - Callirhytis frequens
City Creek Canyon, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
November 25, 2011
Size: ~15 mm diameter
Woody, integral gall on twig of Gambel's Oak (Quercus gambelii) in oak brush/dry prairie vegetation in foothills of Wasatch Mountains (elevation ~5000'). See next photo for dissected view and larva.

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Contributed by John Pearson on 30 November, 2011 - 10:00pm
Last updated 4 March, 2012 - 4:41am

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Moved from Gall Wasps.
… Charley Eiseman, 4 March, 2012 - 4:41am login or register to post comments

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Looks like a moth larva, but I'd bet it's a cynipid gall. Looks like there's a tiny hole in the gall in this shot, so maybe the caterpillar moved in after it was abandoned.
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