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Andricus grossulariae

Andricus grossulariae

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Cynipidae

Andricus grossulariae is a gall wasp species inducing agamic acorn cup galls on oak tree acorn cups and sexual phase galls on catkins. Synonyms include Andricus fructuum (Trotter, 1899), Andricus gemellus (Belizin & Maisuradze, 1961), Andricus intermedius (Tavares, 1922), Andricus mayri (Wachtl, 1879) and Cynips panteli (Kieffer, 1897). Galls Acorn cup galls develop as a chemically induced distortion of the growing acorn cups on oak trees, caused by gall wasps which lay eggs within the tissues of the acorn cup.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 334Netherlands · 198Italy · 69Germany · 20France · 18Spain · 14Belgium · 7Luxembourg · 1Switzerland · 1