Feron bakkeri

{{Short description|North American gall-inducing wasp}}

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| image = Pinched Leaf Gall Wasp Andricus bakkeri Photo 152623999, (c) Madeleine Claire, some rights reserved (CC BY).jpg

| image_caption = Gall induced by Feron bakkeri on Quercus berberidifolia leaf, San Diego County, 2021

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| genus = Feron

| species = bakkeri

| authority = (Lyon, 1984)

| synonyms = Andricus bakkeri

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Feron bakkeri, also known as the pinched leaf gall wasp, is a relatively uncommon species of gall-inducing hymenopteran.{{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 |lccn=2020949502 |pages=108 |language=en-us |doi=10.1515/9780691213408|s2cid=238148746 }}{{cite web |title=Pinched Leaf Gall Wasp (Andricus bakkeri) |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/418265-Andricus-bakkeri |website=iNaturalist |access-date=2023-10-20 |language=en-US}} They produce pink leaf galls on Oregon oaks and scrub oaks. The distribution of this wasp is California and Oregon in North America. It was previously placed in the genus Andricus.{{Cite journal |last1=Cuesta-Porta |first1=Victor |last2=Melika |first2=George |last3=Nicholls |first3=James A. |last4=Stone |first4=Graham N. |last5=Pujade-Villar |first5=Juli |date=2023-11-07 |title=Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Feron Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including the description of six new species |url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5366.1.1 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=5366 |issue=1 |pages=1–174 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5366.1.1 |pmid=38220731 |issn=1175-5334|hdl=20.500.11820/8d7cf66b-8011-4572-b520-b8f5d78deae2 |s2cid=265191343 |hdl-access=free }}