Diplolepis californica, formerly Rhodites californicus, also known as the leafy bract gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that induces galls on wild roses on the Pacific coast of North America.[1][2] D. californica induces club-shaped bud galls that naturalist Richard A. Russo describes as "distinguished from all others by the flat, leafy lobes that emanate from the main gall body and look like aborted leaflets".[1] Each gall contains multiple larval chambers.[1] One of host plants of the leafy bract gall wasp is Rosa californica.[3]
| Diplolepis californica | |
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| Sacramento County, 2022 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Diplolepididae |
| Subfamily: | Diplolepidinae |
| Genus: | Diplolepis |
| Species: | D. californica
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| Binomial name | |
| Diplolepis californica (Beutenmueller, 1914)
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| Synonyms | |
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Rhodites californicus | |
References
edit- ^ a b c Russo, Ron (2006) [1979]. Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and Other Western States. California Natural History Guide No. 91 (Rev. ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. pp. 298–299. ISBN 978-0-520-24886-1. LCCN 2006009332. OCLC 65207054.
- ^ "Diplolepis californica". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
- ^ Bryant, Peter (September 2013). "Inducers, Parasitoids, and Inquilines: Life Inside the Plant Gall" (PDF). Fremontia: Journal of the California Native Plant Society. Vol. 41, no. 3. Sacramento: California Native Plant Society. pp. 14–19.
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