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Photo#512195
Tiny cynipid from white oak leaf - Neuroterus - female

Tiny cynipid from white oak leaf - Neuroterus - Female
Mt. Holyoke Range, South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Size: 0.8 mm
Found dead on 5/4/2011 in a bag containing a Quercus alba leaf collected on 4/18/2011. I only noticed it because this larger wasp caught my attention.

On looking very closely, I found some tiny blisters along the main vein on the underside of the leaf, with three exit holes through which this tiny wasp could have emerged (along with two others that apparently emerged before I collected the leaf). They were right next to the conspicuous spherical gall from which the parasitoid emerged.

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Tiny cynipid from white oak leaf - Neuroterus - female Tiny cynipid from white oak leaf - Neuroterus

N perminimus
Based on the gall description and timeline I think this is maybe "Neuroterus perminimus" which was recently and I believe mistakenly synonymized with N niger. Any chance you held on to this?

 
This specimen,
along with virtually all my other cynipids, is at the USNM. As far as I know it is still sitting in a box on Chang-Ti Tang's old desk, and Matt Buffington would be the person to ask if anyone wants to track it down. It's labeled #512195.

I added a pic of the galls.

Moved
Moved from Gall Wasps.

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