Callirhytis serricornis

Callirhytis serricornis
Callirhytis serricornis in Napa County, July 2022
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Cynipidae
Genus:	Callirhytis
Species:	C. serricornis
Binomial name
Callirhytis serricornis (Kinsey, 1922)

Callirhytis serricornis, formerly Andricus serricornis, the kernel flower gall wasp, is a species of hymenopteran that produces galls on oak trees in California in North America. The wasp oviposits on coast live oak and interior live oak and induces a gall shaped roughly like a bottle or vase. The gall is brown in the first generation, and red and green in the second. ^{[1] [2]}

References

1. Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. pp. 88–89. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN   978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN   2020949502. S2CID   238148746.
2. "Callirhytis serricornis (Kernel Flower Gall Wasp)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-20.

External links

• gallformers.org - Callirhytis serricornis (agamic)