Neuroterus pacificus sp. nov.

Neuroterus batatus [partial synonym for galls in California on Quercus lobata]

The species described by David T. Fullaway as Neuroterus batatus Fitch from California on Quercus lobata is not this species and I propose for it the name Neuroterus pacificus. Dr. Isabel McCracken kindly sent me some of Fullaway's material as well as some collected by herself and Miss Dorothy B. Egbert. The galls occur on Quercus lobata, Q. kelloggi and Q. douglasi. The species is double brooded and the early summer galls are on the under sides of the leaves and the late summer galls are hard, woody swellings on the terminal twigs, containing numerous long, oval larval cells imbedded in the soft spongy interior of the gall.

- William Beutenmuller: (1918) Two New Cynipidae^©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30313791#page/169/mode/1up