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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Cynipoidea » Gall Wasps (Cynipidae) » Neuroterus » Neuroterus exiguissimus
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Gall Wasp - Neuroterus exiguissimus
Copyright © 2009 John Pearson

Gall Wasp - Neuroterus exiguissimus
Cedar Valley Park, Rochester, Cedar County, Iowa, USA
June 25, 2009
Size: gall ~4 mm diameter
Gall on lower leaf surface of white oak (Quercus alba) in campground in upland woods. View of lower leaf surface.

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Contributed by John Pearson on 29 June, 2009 - 8:33pm
Last updated 5 December, 2009 - 10:03am

Moved
Moved from Gall Wasps.
… Charley Eiseman, 5 December, 2009 - 10:03am login or register to post comments

Question
Bur oak or Quercus alba--which is it?
… Charley Eiseman, 5 December, 2009 - 12:42am login or register to post comments

 
White oak
Thanks for catching my use of "bur oak" as the common name and "Quercus alba" as the scientific name. I've corrected it to "white oak (Quercus alba)". I recall this as a white oak, but the leaf in the photo certainly has some "bur-oak-ish" features (probably what caused me to subconsciously say "bur" when I wrote the posting); however, this leaf came from the bottom of a large tree and is a "shade leaf" that is bigger and broader than typical.
… John Pearson, 5 December, 2009 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Galls. Definitely a cynipid gall, but if it is single-celled as it appears to be, it doesn't seem to match any of the woolly galls in Felt (1).
… Charley Eiseman, 2 August, 2009 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Schneider, 19 July, 2009 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

Mite Gall?
Just a guess, but these fuzzy ones sometimes are mite galls. I don't know the midwestern galls at all, though... Moving to Galls for now.
… Ken Schneider, 19 July, 2009 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

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