FAMILY CYNIPIDAE (Gall Wasps)

Hymenoptera-Cynipidae-Atrusca aggregata-Gall Wasps FEMALE (B)

Atrusca aggregata

Bug Spring Trailhead, Mount Lemmon
Pima County, Arizona
November 6, 2021
Size: 6 mm to tip of wings
Coordinates: 32.344855, -110.718172
Elevation: 5,004 ft
Extracted from galls found (on October 4, 2021) attached to the underside of the leaves and clustered on a branch of a single oak tree determined as Quercus arizonica by a group of University of Arizona botanists. The galls were placed in a jar to obtain adults.
Determined by Salvador Vitanza
Confirmed by Joshua C’deBaca and Charley Eiseman

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