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Species Neuroterus quercusverrucarum

What bug lays these eggs? - Neuroterus quercusverrucarum Gall Wasp - Neuroterus quercusverrucarum Neuroterus floccosus - Neuroterus quercusverrucarum galls on White Oak - Neuroterus quercusverrucarum cynipids from small furry galls of Quercus stellata - Neuroterus quercusverrucarum Neuroterus quercusverrucarum Neuroterus quercusverrucarum Oak Flake Gall Wasp - Neuroterus quercusverrucarum
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Cynipoidea
Family Cynipidae (Gall Wasps)
Tribe Cynipini (Oak Gall Wasps)
Genus Neuroterus
Species quercusverrucarum (Neuroterus quercusverrucarum)
Other Common Names
Oak flake gall wasp
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cynips quercus verrucarum Osten Sacken, 1861
Cynips verrucarum
Neuroterus verrucarum
Cynips flocossa Bassett, 1881
Neuroterus flocossus
Neuroterus exiguissimus Bassett, 1900
Explanation of Names
Author: Osten Sacken, 1861
Life Cycle
Adults emerge from galls in April. (1)
Remarks
Causes fuzzy, white to brown galls, about 2.5 mm across, on the undersides of leaves of oaks in the white oak group, e.g. white oak (Quercus alba), swamp white oak (Q. bicolor), overcup oak (Q. lyrata), bur oak (Q. macrocarpa), dwarf chinquapin oak (Q. prinoides), and post oak (Q. stellata) (1)(2).
Print References
Melika, George and Warren G. Abrahamson. 1997. Descriptions of four new species of cynipid gall wasps of the genus Neuroterus Hartig (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with redescriptions of some known species from the eastern United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 99(3):560-573.
Internet References
Oak Flake Galls
Works Cited
1.Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States
Lewis H. Weld. 1959. Privately printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2.Plant Galls and Gall Makers
Ephraim Porter Felt. 1940. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., Ithaca NY.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 5 December, 2009 - 12:28am
Last updated 17 August, 2017 - 12:35pm

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