Beaked Spindle Gall Wasp

Heteroecus pacificus

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae

Heteroecus pacificus, the beaked spindle gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. It occurs in western North America. The galls appear on canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis) and huckleberry oak (Quercus vaccinifolia).

Distribution

Beaked Spindle Gall Wasp — (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 528

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionHeteroecus pacificus, Wikipedia contributors

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