| Diplolepis nodulosa | |
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| Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, California, 2021 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Diplolepididae |
| Subfamily: | Diplolepidinae |
| Genus: | Diplolepis |
| Species: | D. nodulosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Diplolepis nodulosa (Beutenmuller, 1909) | |
Diplolepis nodulosa, also known as the rose-stem gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that induces bud galls on wild roses in North America. [1] This galls induced by this species have a number of inquilines and parasitoids. [2] D. nodulosa is assigned to a clade of Nearctic stem gallers within Diplolepis along with Diplolepis californica, Diplolepis oregonesis, Diplolepis spinosa , and Diplolepis triforma. [3]
