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Another purple gall on oak - Heteroecus

Another purple gall on oak - Heteroecus
Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, California, USA
November 20, 2012
Size: 11.5 mm
On canyon live oak, a few inches/centimeters from this one:

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Species name?
Do the galls in this batch have a proper Latin species name?

 
Undescribed
If they did I would have used it. This is an undescribed species, which can only be named when a taxonomist describes an adult wasp. To my knowledge, no wasp has yet been reared from these galls.

 
Thank you
A permit would be required, as the location is a national park and removing anything is forbidden.

Moved
Moved from Heteroecus.

Moved
Moved from Gall Wasps.

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Galls.

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