Acraspis guadaloupensis
{{Short description|North American gall-inducing wasp}}
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| image = Intermediate Oak Disc Wasp Paracraspis guadaloupensis by chilipossum 2022.jpg
| image_caption = Galls induced by Paracraspis guadaloupensis, Palo Alto, California, 2022
| genus = Acraspis
| species = guadaloupensis
| authority = Fullaway 1911
}}
Acraspis guadaloupensis (also Paracraspis guadaloupensis) is a relatively uncommon species of cynipid wasp that produces galls on intermediate oaks.{{Cite book |last=Russo |first=Ronald A. |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691213408/html |title=Plant Galls of the Western United States |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-691-21340-8 |pages=152 |language=en-us |doi=10.1515/9780691213408|s2cid=238148746 }} The intermediate oak disc wasp was first described in 1911 and has been moved between genera more than once.{{cite web|title=New American cynipid wasps from galls |first=Lewis H. |last=Weld |work=Proceedings of the United States National Museum | year=1952 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/16563/USNMP-102_3304_1952.pdf}} Distribution is limited to California in North America.{{Cite web|last1=Melika |first1=George |last2=Abrahamson | first2=Warren G. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254570300|title=Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)}} The flattened galls appear on leaves of Quercus chrysolepis, the canyon live oak (or maul oak).{{Cite web |title=Page:The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips.pdf/214 - Wikisource, the free online library |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Gall_Wasp_Genus_Cynips.pdf/214 |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=en.wikisource.org |language=en}}
Further reading
- {{Cite journal |last1=Melika |first1=George |last2=Pujade-Villar |first2=Juli |last3=Nicholls |first3=James A. |last4=Cuesta-Porta |first4=Victor |last5=COOKE-McEWEN |first5=Crystal |last6=Stone |first6=Graham N. |date=2021-06-28 |title=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 |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4993.1.1 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4993 |issue=1 |pages=1–81 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4993.1.1 |pmid=34186821 |s2cid=235687282 |issn=1175-5334}}
References
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External links
- {{url|https://www.gallformers.org/gall/893|gallformers.org - Paracraspis guadaloupensis (agamic)}}
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Category:Gall-inducing insects
Category:Western North American coastal fauna
Category:Insects described in 1911
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