Species
Dryocosmus asymmetricus (Split twig gall wasp)
Dryocosmus asymmetricus. Photo: (c) Kim Cabrera, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
Dryocosmus are a genus of gall wasps. They are cyclically parthenogenetic insects that induce galls on plants in the family Fagaceae.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Hymenoptera (Ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies)
- Suborder: Apocrita (Narrow-waisted wasps, ants, and bees)
- Infraorder: Proctotrupomorpha
- Superfamily: Cynipoidea (Gall wasps and allies)
- Family: Cynipidae (Gall wasps)
- Subfamily: Cynipinae
- Tribe: Cynipini (Oak gall wasps)
- Genus: Dryocosmus
- Species: Dryocosmus asymmetricus (Split twig gall wasp)
- Genus: Dryocosmus
- Tribe: Cynipini (Oak gall wasps)
- Subfamily: Cynipinae
- Family: Cynipidae (Gall wasps)
- Superfamily: Cynipoidea (Gall wasps and allies)
- Infraorder: Proctotrupomorpha
- Suborder: Apocrita (Narrow-waisted wasps, ants, and bees)
- Order: Hymenoptera (Ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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