| Dryocosmus castanopsidis | |
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| San Mateo County, California, 2022 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Dryocosmus |
| Species: | D. castanopsidis |
| Binomial name | |
| Dryocosmus castanopsidis (Beutenmueller, 1917) | |
Dryocosmus castanopsidis, also known as the chinquapin flower gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that induces galls on the flowers of giant chinquapin and bush chinquapin on the west coast of North America. [1] The husk and flesh of the galls are red, with a "golden bloom" on the husk, and the central larval chamber has a green tint. [1]
