Lestica confluenta | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Crabronidae |
Genus: | Lestica |
Species: | L. confluenta |
Binomial name | |
Lestica confluenta (Say, 1837) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Lestica confluenta is a species of square-headed wasp in the family Crabronidae. It is found in North America. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Oak apple or oak gall is the common name for a large, round, vaguely apple-like gall commonly found on many species of oak. Oak apples range in size from 2 to 4 centimetres in diameter and are caused by chemicals injected by the larva of certain kinds of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. The adult female wasp lays single eggs in developing leaf buds. The wasp larvae feed on the gall tissue resulting from their secretions, which modify the oak bud into the gall, a structure that protects the developing larvae until they undergo metamorphosis into adults.
Crabronini is a tribe of square-headed wasps in the family Crabronidae. There are more than 40 genera and 1,500 described species in Crabronini. Wasps of this tribe are mostly small to very small wasps. Typical of this tribe are the forewings with a single submarginal cell, the lack of membranous metanotal and propodeal modifications, and a square-shaped head.
Graphocephala coccinea is a meadow and woodland-dwelling species of brightly colored leafhopper native to North and Central America, from Canada south to Panama. Common names include candy-striped leafhopper, red-banded leafhopper, scarlet-and-green leafhopper and red-and-blue leafhopper.
Amphibolips is an American genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are about 52 described species in Amphibolips.
Aradus inornatus is a species of flat bug in the family Aradidae. It is found in North America.
Mallota bequaerti is a species of syrphid fly in the family Syrphidae.
Aradus acutus is a species of flat bug in the family Aradidae. It is found in North America.
Aradus borealis is a species of flat bug in the family Aradidae. It is found in North America.
Largus pallidus is a species of bordered plant bug in the family Largidae. It is found in North America.
Aradus shermani is a species of flat bug in the family Aradidae. It is found in North America.
Aneurus borealis is a species of flat bug in the family Aradidae. It is found in North America.
Gozmanyina majestus is a species of cosmochthoniid in the family Cosmochthoniidae.
Spilomyia crandalli is a species of syrphid fly in the family Syrphidae.
Phloeosinus pini is a species of crenulate bark beetle in the family Curculionidae. It is found in North America.
Lestica producticollis is a species of square-headed wasp in the family Crabronidae. It is found in North America.
Lestica is a genus of square-headed wasps in the family Crabronidae. There are at least 40 described species in Lestica.
Aradus intectus is a species of flat bug in the family Aradidae. It is found in North America.
Buprestis confluenta is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.
Lopidea is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are more than 90 described species in Lopidea.
Amphibolips confluenta, known generally as the spongy oak apple gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae.