1834 1 146 The rose gall-fly (Cynips rosæ)..receives its name from the rose-galls it occasions by puncturing the bark.
1882 25 Nov. 469/1 Very nearly allied to the gall-flies of the Oak is the Rose gall-fly.
1916 (Connecticut Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv.) III. 514 Oligosthenus..stigma... Bred from the cosmopolitan rose gall-fly (Rhodites rosæ).