Acraspis guadaloupensis (also Paracraspis guadaloupensis) is a relatively uncommon species of cynipid wasp that produces galls on intermediate oaks.[1] The intermediate oak disc wasp was first described in 1911 and has been moved between genera more than once.[2] Distribution is limited to California in North America.[3] The flattened galls appear on leaves of Quercus chrysolepis, the canyon live oak (or maul oak).[4]
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| Galls induced by Paracraspis guadaloupensis, Palo Alto, California, 2022 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Acraspis |
| Species: | A. guadaloupensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Acraspis guadaloupensis Fullaway 1911
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Further reading
edit- Melika, George; Pujade-Villar, Juli; Nicholls, James A.; Cuesta-Porta, Victor; COOKE-McEWEN, Crystal; Stone, Graham N. (2021-06-28). "Three new Nearctic genera of oak cynipid gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini): Burnettweldia Pujade-Villar, Melika & Nicholls, Nichollsiella Melika, Pujade-Villar & Stone, Disholandricus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Nicholls; and re-establishment of the genus Paracraspis Weld". Zootaxa. 4993 (1): 1–81. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4993.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 34186821. S2CID 235687282.
References
edit- ^ Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. p. 152. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. S2CID 238148746.
- ^ Weld, Lewis H. (1952). "New American cynipid wasps from galls" (PDF). Proceedings of the United States National Museum.
- ^ Melika, George; Abrahamson, Warren G. "Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)".
- ^ "Page:The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips.pdf/214 - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
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