AuthorWilliams, R.
Year2010
TitleOak-galls in Britain
TypeBook/Report
Source2 volumes, 2010 edition, 229+229pp, Vanellus Publications
IllustrationsLine drawings and half-tone photographs
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

Detailed accounts of, and keys to, the cynipid gall-causers on our oaks with a survey of the recorded inhabitants for each type of gall. A very detailed piece of work.

Buy a paper copy via the BPGS website, or download the two files from the Natural History Museum website:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/pdf_X/Willia2010.pdf

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/pdf_X/Willia2010b.pdf

Examine Stereo Microscope
Website urlwww.britishplantgallsociety.org/publications.html

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentCHALCIDOIDEAchalcid waspsAnimalia: Hymenoptera
For identificationCurrentCYNIPINAEgall waspsAnimalia: Hymenoptera: Cynipidae
For identificationCurrentDIAPRIIDAEdiaprioid parasitoid waspsAnimalia: Hymenoptera
CurrentQuercusoaksPlantae: Fagales: Fagaceae
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