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
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-04
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1
1175-5326
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Latuspina nawai
(
Ashmead, 1904
)
Neuroterus nawai
Ashmead, 1904: 79
,
♂
♀
.
Latuspina nawai
(Ashmead)
Ide & Abe (2016: 821)
,
♂
♀
& ǒ.
Distribution.
Japan
(Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku) (
Ashmead 1904: 79
;
Monzen 1931: 193
;
Sakagami 1952: 73
;
Yukawa & Masuda 1996: 136
, 138) and
Korea
(
Kim
et al
. 1994: 223
).
Remarks (1).
The alternating lifecycle was closed by
Yukawa & Masuda (1996)
and the asexual generation was described by
Ide & Abe (2016)
.
Remarks (2).
Yukawa & Masuda (1996)
photographed the sexual gall and described it as ‘Kunugi-ha-urashiro-ke-tama-fushi’ (C-087), and the asexual gall as ‘Kunugi-ha-suji-ko-tama-fushi’ (C-082). Later,
Ide & Abe (2016)
mentioned that these galls correspond to the sexual and asexual generations of
L. nawai
.
Yukawa & Masuda (1996)
said also that galls C-091 and C-098 belong to
Neuroterus nawai
(
L. nawai
); however, they correspond to
Cerroneuroterus yukawamasudai
(see Remarks for this species).
Remarks (3).
The name ‘
Cerroneuroterus nawai
’ was mentioned in
Melika
et al.
(2012)
, but this combination has never been formally published. Furthermore, the galls of this species, which appeared also in
Melika
et al
. (2010)
as
N. nawai
, actually correspond to the asexual form of
C. yukawamasudai
.
Remarks (4).
Pujade-Villar
et al
. (2020a)
placed
N. nawai
as
species inquirenda
, but it had already been revised and transferred to
Latuspina
by
Ide & Abe (2016)
.
Biology.
Both generations induce detachable leaf galls on
Q. acutissima
and
Q. variabilis
(sect.
Cerris
) (Table 1;
Yukawa & Masuda 1996
;
Ide & Abe 2016
).