A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini)
Author
Al, Irene Lobato-Vila Et
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-04
5161
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1
1175-5326
6793652
20804225-E0CE-420A-B960-4831EE3A1E01
Neuroterus haasi
Kieffer, 1904
Neuroterus haasi
Kieffer, 1904: 61
, ǒ.
Distribution.
India
(Bengal, Kurseong) (
Kieffer 1904: 62
;
Dalla-Torre & Kieffer 1910: 327
;
Mani 2000
, according to
Pénzes
et al
. 2018: 276
).
Remarks.
Neuroterus haasi
was originally described from
Q. spicata
Smith
, which has been synonymized with
Lithocarpus elegans
(Blume) Hatus. ex Soepadmo (
Govaerts & Frodin 1998
)
. This is a very strange host association for
Neuroterus
. In fact,
Pénzes
et al
. (2018)
suspect that
N. haasi
could be a
Dryocosmus
, but whether it belongs to
Dryocosmus
or
Neuroterus
must be examined in further detail, including analysis of DNA sequence data.
Biology.
Only the asexual generation has been described, which induces galls in young shoots of
Lithocarpus elegans
(Table 1;
Kieffer 1904
;
Dalla-Torre & Kieffer 1910
).