Atrusca bella, also known as the little oak-apple gall wasp, is a locally common species of cynipid wasp that produces galls on oak trees in North America.[1] The wasp oviposits on Arizona white oak, Mexican blue oak, netleaf oak, Toumey oak, and shrub live oak.[1] The larval chamber is at the center of the gall, connected to the husk by slender, radiating fibers.[1] The gall induced by this wasp is larger, lighter-colored, and more common than the similar gall induced by Atrusca brevipennata.[1] This wasp has been observed in Arizona and New Mexico.[2]

Atrusca bella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Genus: Atrusca
Species:
A. bella
Binomial name
Atrusca bella
(Bassett, 1881)

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  1. ^ a b c d Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. p. 193. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. S2CID 238148746.
  2. ^ "Atrusca bella". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
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