Andricus legitimus Hymenoptera: Cynipidae - gall wasp
Andricus legitimus

Agamic generation - photographs on Quercus, Oak

Hosts:
Only agamic generation known, on Quercus petraea, robur

Forms a unilocular, ovoid gall within an aborted acorn which remains more/less completely enclosed in the cupula.

Galls with several chambers have been affected by an iniquiline, possibly Synergus clandestinus, an iniquiline of A. legitimus and other acorn-galling Andricus species


Andricus legitimus

Andricus legitimus
Andricus legitimus
Broomhill, Dorset. November 2017

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