#3532 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Striped Pea Gall Wasp

🇳🇱 Eikenstuitergalwesp ·Cynips longiventris

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
2. © Arnstein Staverløkk, Norsk institutt for naturforskning · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Til Mann · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Arnstein Staverløkk, Norsk institutt for naturforskning · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Piershilse Bos, Goudswaard, Zuid-Holland, NL:© Henk van Leenen · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Meijendel and Berkheide, Wassenaar, South Holland, NL:© Katharine Khamhaengwong · CC BY 4.0
8. Gelderland, NL:© Michiel Sytsma · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Rozendaal, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Vriescheloo, Vriescheloo, Groningen, NL:© jambuman · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cynips is a genus of gall wasps in the tribe Cynipini, the oak gall wasps. One of the best known is the common oak gall wasp ( Cynips quercusfolii ), which induces characteristic spherical galls about two centimeters wide on the undersides of oak leaves.

base stats

NL sightings 180iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,502iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 180 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #30 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
3,502 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Theodor Hartig in 1840 (186 years ago).