| Callirhytis perfoveata | |
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| Santa Clara County, April 2021 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Callirhytis |
| Species: | C. perfoveata |
| Binomial name | |
| Callirhytis perfoveata (Kinsey, 1922) | |
Callirhytis perfoveata, formerly Andricus perfoveata, the leaf ball gall wasp, is a species of hymenopteran that produces leaf galls on oak trees in California in North America. [1] The wasp oviposits on coast live oak, interior live oak, and occasionally on California black oak, and induces what appears to be a roughly spherical gall embedded within the leaf. [2] The gall is initially bright green and turns brown as it ages. [2]
