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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Beeches, Oaks, Walnuts, and Allies
  6. Beech Family
  7. Chestnuts
  8. American Chestnut
  9. Supports
  10. Hosted animals

Hosted animals on American Chestnut

17 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Anthaxia quercata 44 records
  • Northern Red Oak Jewel Beetle Brachys aerosus 37 records
  • Six-marked Jewel Beetle Chrysobothris sexsignata 30 records
  • Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus 8 records
  • Two-lined Chestnut Borer Agrilus bilineatus 7 records
  • Aegomorphus modestus 2 records
  • Discolored Long-horned Beetle Centrodera decolorata 2 records
  • Oak Bark Scaler Encyclops caeruleus 2 records
  • Nematus castaneae 2 records
  • Rustic Borer Xylotrechus colonus 1 record
  • Bimaculate Longhorn Beetle Molorchus bimaculatus 1 record
  • Spotted Longhorn Beetle Hyperplatys aspersus 1 record
  • Pauper Longhorned Beetle Eupogonius pauper 1 record
  • Neandra marginicollis 1 record
  • Flat-headed Apple Tree Borer Chrysobothris femorata 1 record
  • Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus ferrugineus 1 record
  • Polished Bark Beetle Xyloterinus politus 1 record

Not native to the US

1 animal, most recorded first.

  • Asian Chestnut Gall Wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus 1 record · introduced

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