Neuroterus acrotrichias (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Neuroterus
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown
Texture: bumpy, hairy, hairless, ribbed
Abundance:
Shape: globular, cluster, numerous, spangle/button
Season: Winter, Spring
Related:
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Avispas agalladoras de los encinos de Santa Fe (Ciudad de México, México) (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae: Cynipini; Fagaceae)

Neuroterus acrotrichias Pujade-Villar, In Pujade-Villar et al. (2017a: 68)

Gall (Figs. 6d-e): Located on the underside of the leaves in a high number, between the secondary or tertiary veins, rarely on top of them. They are strongly attached to the leaf surface without causing a depression of the leaf at the point of insertion. They are not deciduous. They are globular with a flat base, chestnut-colored on the side and light in the apical area, provided with a whitish apical pubescent tuft. The surface is shiny and leathery, sometimes with some weak longitudinal ridges. The diameter is 1.5-1.6 mm and the height is 1.2-1.3 mm. The larval chamber is located at the bottom of the gall parallel to the leaf (1.2 x 0.5 mm); above it, there is a hard tissue that protects the larval chamber from above.

Hosts: Quercus rugosa (section Quercus).

Biology: Species known only for the asexual generation. The galls begin their formation at the end of winter. Adults emerge at the end of June.

Distribution: Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico, and Tlaxcala); cited from Santa Fe in Pujade-Villar et al. (2017a).

- Uriel Barrera-Ruiz, Victor Cuesta-Porta, David Cibrian-Tovar, Aitor Martinez-Romero, Juli Pujade-Villar: (2021) Avispas agalladoras de los encinos de Santa Fe (Ciudad de México, México) (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae: Cynipini; Fagaceae)©


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