Heteroecus pacificus

Heteroecus pacificus, the beaked spindle gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae.^[1][2][3][4] According to Ron Russo's book, Plant Galls of California and the Southwest, the galls appear on canyon live oak and huckleberry oak.

Heteroecus pacificus
Adult (top) and beaked spindle galls (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Cynipidae
Genus:	Heteroecus
Species:	H. pacificus
Binomial name
Heteroecus pacificus (Ashmead, 1896)