Cynips longiventris Hymenoptera: Cynipidae - gall wasp
Cynips longiventris

Agamic generation - photographs on Quercus, Oak

Hosts:
Agamic and sexual generations on Q. frainetto, petraea, pubescens, robur

Agamic - usually on lowerside of leaf, gall bumpy, pale yellowish with white, pink or red spots or stripes. Very hard wall and small inner chamber

Sexual - hairy oval bud galls, 2mm tall without bud scales at base. Hairs long and greyish.

Similar: Sexual galls of C. quercusfolii have shorter purplish violet hairs


Cynips longiventris

Cynips longiventris
Cynips longiventris
Broadstone, Dorset. October 2017

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