Andricus quercuscalicis (Burgsdorff, 1783)
(Knopper Gall Wasp, Acorn Cup Gall Wasp)

Interactions where Andricus quercuscalicis is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		agamic larva is ectoparasitoid host of solitary larva			Aulogymnus trilineatus	(A Chalcid Wasp)	Hymenoptera: Eulophidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Eulophidae/Aulogymnus trilineatus/	Aulogymnus trilineatus	(a chalcid wasp)		solitary		larva	Animal / parasitoid / ectoparasitoid		Foreign	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic larva				solitary larva is ectoparasitoid of agamic larva
		agamic larva is endoparasitoid host of communal larva			Baryscapus berhidanus	(A Chalcid Wasp)	Hymenoptera: Eulophidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Eulophidae/Baryscapus berhidanus/	Baryscapus berhidanus	(a chalcid wasp)		communal		larva	Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoid		Foreign	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic larva				communal larva is endoparasitoid of agamic larva
		agamic gall may attract solitary larva			Eupelmus urozonus	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Eupelmidae/Eupelmus urozonus/	Eupelmus urozonus	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic gall				solitary larva is associated with agamic gall
		agamic gall may attract solitary larva			Eurytoma brunniventris	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Eurytomidae/Eurytoma brunniventris/	Eurytoma brunniventris	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic gall				solitary larva is associated with agamic gall
		agamic larva is endoparasitoid host of solitary larva			Sycophila biguttata	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Eurytomidae/Sycophila biguttata/	Sycophila biguttata	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoid		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic larva				solitary larva is endoparasitoid of agamic larva
		agamic larva is ectoparasitoid host of solitary larva			Ormyrus nitidulus	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Ormyridae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Ormyridae/Ormyrus nitidulus/	Ormyrus nitidulus	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / parasitoid / ectoparasitoid		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic larva				solitary larva is ectoparasitoid of agamic larva
		agamic gall may attract solitary larva			Cecidostiba adana	(A Chalcid Wasp)	Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Cecidostiba adana/	Cecidostiba adana	(a chalcid wasp)		solitary		larva	Animal / associate		Foreign	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic gall				solitary larva is associated with agamic gall
		agamic larva is parasitoid host of larva			Cecidostiba semifascia	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Cecidostiba semifascia/	Cecidostiba semifascia	a chalcid wasp				larva	Animal / parasitoid		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic larva				larva is parasitoid of agamic larva
		agamic larva is ectoparasitoid host of solitary larva			Mesopolobus amaenus	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae	The Parasitoids and inquilines of the agamic generation of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hym.; Cynipidae) in Britain, Hails, R.S., Askew, R.R. & Notton, D.G., 1990 Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Mesopolobus amaenus/	Mesopolobus amaenus	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / parasitoid / ectoparasitoid		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic larva	Major			solitary larva is ectoparasitoid of agamic larva
		agamic gall may attract solitary larva			Mesopolobus sericeus	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Mesopolobus sericeus/	Mesopolobus sericeus	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic gall				solitary larva is associated with agamic gall
		agamic gall may attract solitary larva			Bootanomyia dorsalis	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Torymidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Torymidae/Bootanomyia dorsalis/	Bootanomyia dorsalis	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic gall				solitary larva is associated with agamic gall
		agamic larva is ectoparasitoid host of solitary larva			Bootanomyia stigmatizans	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Torymidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Torymidae/Bootanomyia stigmatizans/	Bootanomyia stigmatizans	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / parasitoid / ectoparasitoid		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic larva				solitary larva is ectoparasitoid of agamic larva
		agamic gall may attract solitary larva			Torymus auratus	a chalcid wasp	Hymenoptera: Torymidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Torymidae/Torymus auratus/	Torymus auratus	a chalcid wasp		solitary		larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic gall				solitary larva is associated with agamic gall
		agamic gall may attract larva			Gelis formicarius	an ant-mimic ichneumon	Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Ichneumonidae/Gelis formicarius/	Gelis formicarius	an ant-mimic ichneumon				larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic gall				larva is associated with agamic gall
		agamic larva with fatal inquiline larva			Pammene amygdalana	(A Tortrix Moth)	Lepidoptera: Tortricidae	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges, Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Tortricidae/Pammene amygdalana/	Pammene amygdalana	(a tortrix moth)				larva	Animal / fatal inquiline		Foreign	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp				agamic larva				larva is fatal inquiline in agamic larva
gall		gall of agamic larva may attract Fruitbody			Mycena rhenana	Gall Bonnet	Agaricales: Mycenaceae	A new species and a new section of the genus Mycena from the Netherlands, Berg, A.P. van den, Berg-Blok, A.E. van den, Noordeloos, M.E. & Uljé, C.B., 2000	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Mycenaceae/Mycena rhenana/	Mycena rhenana	gall bonnet				Fruitbody	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Andricus quercuscalicis/	Andricus quercuscalicis	knopper gall wasp, acorn cup gall wasp			gall	agamic larva	Sole			Fruitbody is associated with gall of agamic larva

Author & Year	Title	Source
Berg, A.P. van den, Berg-Blok, A.E. van den, Noordeloos, M.E. & Uljé, C.B., 2000	A new species and a new section of the genus Mycena from the Netherlands	Persoonia Vol 17 (3): 481-485.
Hails, R.S., Askew, R.R. & Notton, D.G., 1990	The Parasitoids and inquilines of the agamic generation of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hym.; Cynipidae) in Britain	Entomologist Vol 109 (3): 165-172.
Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J., 1995	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges	Oikos Vol. 72, No. 1: 51-60.

Andricus quercuscalicis (Knopper Gall Wasp, Acorn Cup Gall Wasp) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

Andricus quercuscalicis (Knopper Gall Wasp, Acorn Cup Gall Wasp) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

CYNIPIDAE
(gall wasps etc)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Andricus quercuscalicis f. agamic Knopper Gall Causer				Form		3 trophisms
Andricus quercuscalicis f. sexual a gall wasp (sexual generation)				Form		1 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Andricus quercuscalicis (Knopper Gall Wasp, Acorn Cup Gall Wasp)
Genus	Andricus (a genus of gall wasps)
Tribe	Cynipini (a tribe of hymenopterans)
Family	CYNIPIDAE (gall wasps etc)
Superfamily	CYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic wasps)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Andricus quercuscalicis is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Andricus quercuscalicis (Knopper Gall Wasp, Acorn Cup Gall Wasp)

Andricus quercuscalicis (Knopper Gall Wasp, Acorn Cup Gall Wasp) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CYNIPIDAE
(gall wasps etc)

CYNIPOIDEA
(cynipoid parasitic wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Schönrogge, K., Moriya, S., Melika, G., Randle, Z., Begg, T., Aebi, A. & Stone, G.		Early parasitoid recruitment in invading cynipid galls	Schönrogge, K., Moriya, S., Melika, G., Randle, Z., Begg, T., Aebi, A. & Stone, G. Early parasitoid recruitment in invading cynipid galls, 11pp, Galling Arthropods and Their Associates
Parthology
Hails, R.S., Askew, R.R. & Notton, D.G.	1990	The Parasitoids and inquilines of the agamic generation of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hym.; Cynipidae) in Britain	Entomologist Vol 109 (3): 165-172.
Pathology
Ellis, H.E.		Observations on the agamic (Knopper) gall of Andricus quercuscalicis and the associated inquilines and parasites in Northumberland	Cecidology Vol 20 (1): 12-20, 21.
Notton, D.G.	1988	Parasitoids of the sexual and parthenogenetic generations of Andricus quercuscalicis (Burgsdorf, 1783); Hym.: Cynipidae.	Cecidology Vol 3(1): 15-17.
Randolph, S.	2003	Parasitism by Cecidostiba fungosa (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) on the inquiline Synergus gallaepomiformis and observations on other community members of the agamic (knopper) galls of Andricus quercuscalicis in the Bristol area.	Cecidology Vol. 18 (2) : 42-50.
Schonrogge, K., Stone, G.N. & Crawley, M.J.	1995	Spatial and Temporal Variation in Guild Structure: Parasitoids and Inquilines of Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in its native and alien ranges	Oikos Vol. 72, No. 1: 51-60.
Spread And Parasitoids
Schönrogge, K., Begg, T., Williams, R., Melika, G., Randle, Z. & Stone, G.N. 5 6	2012	Range expansion and enemy recruitment by eight alien gallwasp species in Britain	Insect Conservation and Diversity Vol 5 (4): 298-311.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Andricus quercuscalicis (Knopper Gall Wasp, Acorn Cup Gall Wasp):

CYNIPIDAE
(gall wasps etc)

CYNIPOIDEA
(cynipoid parasitic wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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