About Amphibolips quercuspomiformis (Bassett, 1881) Cuesta-Porta, Equihua-Martínez, Estrada-Venegas, Cibrián-Tovar, Barrera-Ruíz, Silva, Sánchez, Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2020
Amphibolips quercuspomiformis (Bassett, 1881) Cuesta-Porta, Equihua-Martínez, Estrada-Venegas, Cibrián-Tovar, Barrera-Ruíz, Silva, Sánchez, Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2020, commonly called the apple gall wasp or live oak apple gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp. This wasp induces the formation of galls on coast live oak and interior live oak trees. Like many other gall wasp species, it has two alternating generations that produce different types of galls: an all-female parthenogenic generation, and a bisexual generation. The galls created by the unisexual generation in summer are spherical, reach up to 40 mm in diameter, and are covered with short spines. These galls develop on stems; they are green or red when new, and later turn brown. The galls formed by the bisexual generation in spring are small, shaped like toadstools, and grow on leaves.
