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Named after Alice I. Nicholls, daughter of Dr. J. A. Nicholls (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of 
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, AZ656— 
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, AZ657— 
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, AZ658— 
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, AZ660— 
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, AZ662— 
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, AZ664— 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FF26F9CFFEA47D4F" bold="true" box="[199,322,1580,1606]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C2F4D10FFD4FFA1FEABF9CEFDF57D4F" box="[330,531,1580,1606]" class="Insecta" family="Cynipidae" genus="Neuroterus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alicae">
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FEABF9CEFDF57D4F" box="[330,531,1580,1606]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Neuroterus alicae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
belongs to Kinsey’s subgenus 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FC95F9CFFC047D4F" box="[884,994,1580,1606]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Diplobius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The asexual generation of 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FAFEF9CEFF0E7D63" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Neuroterus aliceae</emphasis>
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induces dehiscent leaf galls on 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FDB5F9B2FCEB7D63" box="[596,781,1616,1643]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Q. oblongifoliae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The only previously known 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FBBCF9B2FB3C7D63" box="[1117,1242,1617,1642]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Neuroterus</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
from the 
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southwest to induce detachable leaf galls, 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FD4FF996FD277D87" box="[686,705,1653,1678]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">N</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FD30F996FCAE7D87" box="[721,840,1653,1678]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">argentatus</emphasis>
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asexual generation, induces small, flat, rounded spangle galls on the underside of the leaves of 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FCF3F97AFCC07DBA" box="[786,806,1689,1715]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Q</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FCD4F97BFC717DBB" box="[821,919,1688,1714]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">gambelii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FC46F97AFBB57DBB" box="[935,1107,1688,1715]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Q. oblongifolia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FB6DF97AFAF87DBB" box="[1164,1310,1688,1715]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Q. turbinella</emphasis>
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, which are obviously different from the aggregated brown fluffy leaf galls induced by 
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FC01F95EFBBF7DDF" box="[992,1113,1724,1750]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
<taxonomicName id="4C2F4D10FFD4FFA1FC01F95EFBB37DDF" authorityName="Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone" authorityYear="2021" box="[992,1109,1724,1750]" class="Insecta" family="Cynipidae" genus="Neuroterus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aliceae">N. aliceae</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD4FFA1FF26F903FEBF7DF3" bold="true" box="[199,345,1760,1786]" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Description.</emphasis>
Asexual female (
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). Head, mesosoma and metasoma dark brown to black; mandibles, maxillary and labial palpi light brown; antennae brown, gradually darker towards apex; legs dark brown.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B903693FFD4FFA2FF26F8CBFDF97AFC" blockId="93.[151,1437,1364,2039]" lastBlockId="94.[151,1436,151,501]" lastPageId="94" lastPageNumber="95" pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Head alutaceous, with sparse white setae, denser on lower face and postgena, 1.2× as broad as high and broader than mesosoma in front view, 2.2× as broad as long in dorsal view. Gena alutaceous, slightly broadened behind eye in frontal view, as broad as transverse diameter of eye in lateral view. Malar space alutaceous, with malar sulcus; eye 3.7× as high as length of malar space. Inner margins of eyes parallel. POL 2.7× as long as OOL; OOL 1.4× as long as diameter of lateral ocellus and slightly shorter than LOL; all ocelli ovate, of same size. Transfacial distance length equal to height of eye; diameter of antennal torulus 1.3× as long as distance between them, distance between torulus and eye 1.3× as long as diameter of torulus; lower face and slightly elevated median area uniformly alutaceous, without striae, with some setae. Clypeus trapezoid, alutaceous, broader than high; ventrally rounded, emarginate, without median incision and with a few long setae; anterior tentorial pit large, rounded, epistomal sulcus and clypeo-pleurostomal line distinct, broad. Frons and slightly elevated interocellar area alutaceous, with short white setae. Vertex, occiput, postocciput, postgena alutaceous, with a few setae; occipital foramen slightly shorter than height of postgenal bridge; hypostomal carina emarginate, continuing into postgenal sulci which are not united; postgenal bridge anteriorly as broad as occipital foramen. Antenna slightly longer than head+mesosoma, with 10 flagellomeres, pedicel 1.4× as long as broad, F1 1.5× as long as pedicel and 1.4× as long as F2, F2 slightly longer than F3, F3 shorter than F4, subsequent flagellomeres shorter, nearly equal in length, F12 slightly longer than F11, placodeal sensilla on F2–F12.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD7FFA2FF76F9C5FE8B7D37" bold="true" box="[151,365,1574,1598]" pageId="94" pageNumber="95">FIGURES 344–347.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD7FFA2FE94F9C4FDD07D37" box="[373,566,1574,1598]" italics="true" pageId="94" pageNumber="95">Neuroterus aliceae</emphasis>
Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone
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, 
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, asexual generation, female. 344–346, head: 344, frontal view, 345, dorsal view, 346, posterior view. 347, antenna.
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<paragraph id="8B903693FFD7FFA3FF26F972FA697A6C" blockId="94.[151,1437,1680,2031]" lastBlockId="95.[151,1437,151,357]" lastPageId="95" lastPageNumber="96" pageId="94" pageNumber="95">Mesosoma slightly longer than high, with a few white setae. Pronotum uniformly alutaceous; propleuron smooth, glabrous, with few setae; anterior margin invaginated, smooth, glabrous, not foveolate. Mesoscutum uniformly alutaceous, with a few setae anteriorly; slightly longer than broad (greatest width measured across mesoscutum at level of base of tegulae). Notaulus, anterior parallel line, parapsidal line and median mesoscutal line absent; circumscutellar carina narrow, extending slightly above tegula. Mesoscutum emarginate posterolaterally, slightly elevated above dorsal axillar area, V-shaped posteriocentrally. Transscutal articulation absent. Mesoscutellum rounded, slightly broader than high, smooth, glabrous, with a few white short setae on disk; anteriorly with short and narrow strongly impressed smooth, glabrous area, not overhanging metanotum. Mesopleuron and speculum alutaceous, glabrous; mesopleural triangle smooth, glabrous, with some delicate rugae; dorsal and lateral axillar areas smooth, glabrous; subaxillular bar smooth, glabrous, triangular, at posterior end higher than height of metanotal trough; metapleural sulcus delimiting smooth, glabrous area, impressed, distinct, reaching mesopleuron in lower half, upper part of sulcus absent, instead some parallel rugae radiating from mesopleuron and reaching subaxillular bar. Metascutellum smooth, glabrous, as high as height of smooth, glabrous ventral impressed area, metanotal trough smooth, glabrous; central propodeal area ovate, broadest at mid height, glabrous, with delicate numerous interrupted rugae, which fill in the entire central propodeal area; no distinct lateral propodeal carinae; lateral propodeal area smooth, glabrous, without setae. Nucha smooth, glabrous, without rugae. Tarsal claws simple, without basal lobe.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD6FFA3FF76F994FE887D86" bold="true" box="[151,366,1655,1679]" pageId="95" pageNumber="96">FIGURES 348–351.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFD6FFA3FE95F99BFDD27D86" box="[372,564,1655,1679]" italics="true" pageId="95" pageNumber="96">Neuroterus aliceae</emphasis>
Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone
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, 
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A26857FAFFD6FFA3FCADF99BFC7A7D99" box="[844,924,1656,1680]" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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, asexual generation, female. 348–349, mesosoma: 348, lateral view, 349, dorsal view. 350, metascutellum and propodeum, posterodorsal view. 351, forewing.
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<paragraph id="8B903693FFD6FFA3FF26F901FDD47C4D" blockId="95.[151,1437,1762,2040]" pageId="95" pageNumber="96">Forewing longer than body, hyaline, margin with long dense cilia, veins dark brown, radial cell open, 4.1× as long as broad, R1 and Rs nearly reaching wing margin, areolet triangular, well-delimited, Rs+M distinct along full length, reaching basalis at lower 1/3.</paragraph>
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Metasoma as long as head+mesosoma, taller than long in lateral view; second metasomal tergite occupying 1/2 the length of metasoma in dorsal view, without setae anterolaterally, without micropunctures, subsequent tergites smooth, glabrous, without micropunctures. Hypopygium without micropunctures, prominent part of ventral spine of hypopygium short, as long as broad in ventral view, with a few setae ventrally which do not extend beyond apex of spine. Body length 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFF26FF75FEE77BB9" bold="true" box="[199,257,150,176]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Gall.</emphasis>
(
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). Brown fluffy leaf galls, consisting of an aggregated group of larval chambers ≥ 
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across, on midrib on the underside of leaf. Covered in a dense, somewhat woolly, coat of reddish-brown hairs. Similar in structure to 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFEFCFF3CFE3E7BF1" box="[285,472,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Andricus pattoni</emphasis>
(
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from 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFF76FEC5FE887A49" bold="true" box="[151,366,294,320]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Sexual generation</emphasis>
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<figureCitation id="13142A16FFE9FF9CFF76FEA8FEDE7A6C" box="[151,312,330,357]" captionStart-0="FIGURES 352–359" captionStart-1="FIGURES 360–363" captionStart-2="FIGURES 364–367" captionStartId-0="97.[151,264,1869,1893]" captionStartId-1="98.[151,264,1742,1766]" captionStartId-2="99.[151,264,1273,1297]" captionTargetBox-0="[177,1432,422,1834]" captionTargetBox-1="[164,1415,462,1700]" captionTargetBox-2="[148,1439,196,1249]" captionTargetId-0="figure-126@97.[152,1435,417,1846]" captionTargetId-1="figure-156@98.[153,1434,453,1719]" captionTargetId-2="figure-18@99.[148,1439,181,1249]" captionTargetPageId-0="97" captionTargetPageId-1="98" captionTargetPageId-2="99" captionText-0="FIGURES 352–359. Neuroterus aliceae Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone, sp. nov., sexual generation. 352–354, head, female: 352, frontal view, 353, dorsal view, 354, posterior view. 355–356, head, male: 355, frontal view, 356, dorsal view. 357–358, antenna: 357, female, 358, male. 359, forewing, part, female." captionText-1="FIGURES 360–363. Neuroterus aliceae Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone, sp. nov., sexual generation, female. 360, mesosoma and propleura, frontal view, 361–362, mesosoma: 361, lateral view, 362, dorsal view. 363, metascutellum and propodeum, posterodorsal view." captionText-2="FIGURES 364–367. Neuroterus aliceae Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone, sp. nov., sexual generation. 364–365, metasoma, lateral view: 364, female, 365, male. 366–367, galls: 366, sexual generation, 367, asexual generation." figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5800910" figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5800914" figureDoi-2="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5800916" httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/5800910/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/5800914/files/figure.png" httpUri-2="https://zenodo.org/record/5800916/files/figure.png" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Figs. 352–366</figureCitation>
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<subSubSection id="C3356518FFE9FF9CFF76FE71FDC37934" pageId="96" pageNumber="97" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="8B903693FFE9FF9CFF76FE71FDC37934" blockId="96.[151,1437,402,2013]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFF76FE71FE667AA5" bold="true" box="[151,384,402,428]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Material examined.</emphasis>
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Seven females and 
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“ 
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campground, 
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, leg. 
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, 
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Code AZ1946, spAZc3; ex 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFCFFFE54FBE87AD8" box="[798,1038,439,465]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Quercus oblongifolia</emphasis>
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”; 
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“ 
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, 
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, Molino Basin campground, Santa 
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, leg. 
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, 
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<collectingDate id="EFD5E9BBFFE9FF9CFCD6FE38FC5A7AFC" box="[823,956,475,501]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97" value="2008-04-09">2008.04.09.</collectingDate>
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Code AZ1872, ex 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFB78FE38FA6F7AFC" box="[1177,1417,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Quercus oblongifolia</emphasis>
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”, and 
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“ 
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, Molino Basin campground, Santa 
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, leg. 
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, 
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<collectingDate id="EFD5E9BBFFE9FF9CFB35FE1CFABF7910" box="[1236,1369,511,537]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97" value="2008-04-09">2008.04.09.</collectingDate>
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Code AZ1887, ex 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFEC5FDC0FDF47934" box="[292,530,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Quercus oblongifolia</emphasis>
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<subSubSection id="C3356518FFE9FF9CFF26FDA5FD22781C" pageId="96" pageNumber="97" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8B903693FFE9FF9CFF26FDA5FD22781C" blockId="96.[151,1437,402,2013]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFF26FDA5FEA47969" bold="true" box="[199,322,582,608]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
The sexual generation of 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFD9DFDA4FD157968" box="[636,755,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">N. aliceae</emphasis>
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induces catkin galls on 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFBF8FDA4FB2F7968" box="[1049,1225,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Q. oblongifolia</emphasis>
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. The only known 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFF76FD88FEF2798D" box="[151,276,619,644]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Neuroterus</emphasis>
species
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from the 
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southwest which induces flower galls (also on white oaks) is 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFB5AFD88FAB2798C" box="[1211,1364,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">N. floricomus</emphasis>
Weld, 1957
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, sexual generation. The galls of 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFDDEFD6CFD3E79A0" box="[575,728,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">N. floricomus</emphasis>
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are dense wooly enlargements of the catkin axis (
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) and are clearly different from those of 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFDB7FD50FD2C79C4" box="[598,714,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">N. aliceae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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). In 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFC94FD50FBE979C4" box="[885,1039,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">N. floricomus</emphasis>
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the head of females is coriaceous, genae broadened behind eyes, the body of females is black, while in 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFC47FD34FBFF79F8" box="[934,1049,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">N. aliceae</emphasis>
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, head is alutaceous, genae are not broadened behind eyes, and entire body is brown.
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<paragraph id="8B903693FFE9FF9CFF26FCFDFB607854" blockId="96.[151,1437,402,2013]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE9FF9CFF26FCFDFEBF7831" bold="true" box="[199,345,798,824]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Description.</emphasis>
Sexual female (
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). Head black, mesosoma and metasoma brown; mandibles, maxillary and labial palpi yellow; antennae brown; legs light brown to yellow.
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<paragraph id="8B903693FFE9FF9CFF26FC84FB787E94" blockId="96.[151,1437,402,2013]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">
Head alutaceous, with sparse white setae, denser on lower face; 1.2× as broad as high and slightly broader than mesosoma in frontal view, 2.0× as broad as long in dorsal view, Gena alutaceous, not broadened behind eye in frontal view, narrower than transverse diameter of eye in lateral view. Malar space alutaceous, with delicate parallel striae radiating from clypeus and reaching eye, malar sulcus absent or inconspicuous between striae; eye 4.6× as high as length of malar space. Inner margins of eyes parallel. POL 1.9× as long as OOL, OOL 1.5× as long as diameter of lateral ocellus and equal to LOL; all ocelli ovate, of same size. Transfacial distance equal to height of eye; diameter of antennal torulus 1.3× as long as distance between them, distance between torulus and eye nearly equal to diameter of torulus; lower face and slightly elevated median area uniformly alutaceous, without striae. Clypeus trapezoid, alutaceous, broader than high; ventrally rounded, emarginate, without median incision and with a few long setae ventrally; anterior tentorial pit large, rounded, epistomal sulcus and clypeo-pleurostomal line distinct, broad. Frons and slightly elevated interocellar area alutaceous, with a few short white setae. Vertex, occiput alutaceous, with rare setae; postocciput, postgena smooth, glabrous; occipital foramen as high as height of postgenal bridge; hypostomal carina emarginate, continuing into indistinct united postgenal sulci, postgenal bridge narrow. Antenna longer than head+mesosoma, with 12 flagellomeres (in some 
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suture between F12 and F11 indistinct), pedicel subglobular; F1 1.7× as long as pedicel and 1.25× as long as F2, F2 slightly longer than F3, F3=F4, F5–F10 equal in length, F12 slightly longer than F11; placodeal sensilla on F2–F12.
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<paragraph id="8B903693FFE9FF9CFF26FA44FDED7CD4" blockId="96.[151,1437,402,2013]" pageId="96" pageNumber="97">Mesosoma slightly longer than high, with a few white setae. Propleuron smooth, glabrous. Pronotum alutaceous, with a few setae and some delicate striae laterally; anterior margin invaginated, smooth, glabrous, foveolate. Mesoscutum alutaceous, with a few setae; longer than broad (greatest width measured across mesoscutum at level of base of tegulae). Notaulus impressed in posterior 2/3 of mesoscutum length, only a trace in anterior 1/3, anterior parallel line invisible, parapsidal line marked with impressed smooth, glabrous area; median mesoscutal line in the form of a short triangle; circumscutellar carina broad, extending above tegula. Mesoscutum emarginate posterolaterally, slightly elevated above dorsal axillar area. Transscutal articulation absent. Mesoscutellum slightly longer than broad, ovate, uniformly alutaceous, with some white short setae, posteriorly rounded, clearly projecting over metanotum. Mesoscutellar foveae in the form of a transverse, narrow impressed anterior area, with smooth, glabrous bottom. Mesopleuron and speculum alutaceous, glabrous, invaginated in lower half; mesopleural triangle smooth, glabrous, with a few white setae; dorsal and lateral axillar areas smooth, glabrous; subaxillular bar smooth, glabrous, with parallel margins, shorter than height of metanotal trough; metapleural sulcus distinct, reaching mesopleuron at half its height. Metascutellum smooth, glabrous, as tall as height of smooth, glabrous ventral impressed area; metanotal trough smooth, glabrous; propodeum posterodorsally smooth, glabrous, without carinae, lateral propodeal carina present only at the most posterior end of propodeum. Nucha short, smooth, glabrous. Tarsal claws simple, without basal lobe.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B903693FFE8FF9DFF26FF74FD247BF0" blockId="97.[151,1436,151,394]" pageId="97" pageNumber="98">Forewing longer than body, hyaline, margin with long dense cilia, with dark brown veins, radial cell open, 4.3× as long as broad, R1 and Rs reaching wing margin; areolet triangular, well-delimited, Rs+M distinct along full length, reaching basalis in lower 1/3 of its height.</paragraph>
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Metasoma as long as head+mesosoma, shorter than high in lateral view; second metasomal tergite extending to 1/3 of metasoma length in dorsal view, with a few white setae anterolaterally, without micropunctures, subsequent tergites smooth, glabrous, without micropunctures. Hypopygium without micropunctures, prominent part of ventral spine of hypopygium 4.4× as long as broad in ventral view, without setae. Body length 
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(n = 6).
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE8FF9DFF76F8AEFE887C6C" bold="true" box="[151,366,1869,1893]" pageId="97" pageNumber="98">FIGURES 352–359.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFE8FF9DFE97F8ADFDDE7C6C" box="[374,568,1869,1893]" italics="true" pageId="97" pageNumber="98">Neuroterus aliceae</emphasis>
Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone
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, 
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A26857FAFFE8FF9DFCB7F8AEFC4E7C6C" box="[854,936,1869,1893]" pageId="97" pageNumber="98" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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, sexual generation. 352–354, head, female: 352, frontal view, 353, dorsal view, 354, posterior view. 355–356, head, male: 355, frontal view, 356, dorsal view. 357–358, antenna: 357, female, 358, male. 359, forewing, part, female.
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Male (
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, 
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). Similar to female but eye 1.2× as high as length of transfacial distance, eye 5.3× as high as length of malar space, POL 3.4× as long as OOL, LOL 1.75× as long as OOL; antenna with 12 flagellomeres, F1 slightly curved, placodeal sensilla on F1–F13. Body length 
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(n = 6).
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<paragraph id="8B903693FFEBFF9EFF26FEE1FC1D7A48" blockId="98.[151,1436,150,429]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFEBFF9EFF26FEE1FEE77A15" bold="true" box="[199,257,258,284]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">Gall.</emphasis>
(
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). A whitish swelling surrounding individual flowers, with sparse very short pubescence. A swollen flower is 
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in diameter; multiple flowers per catkin are galled.
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<paragraph id="8B903693FFEBFF9EFF26FEA9FC3D7AA4" blockId="98.[151,1436,150,429]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFEBFF9EFF26FEA9FEC17A6D" bold="true" box="[199,295,330,356]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">Biology.</emphasis>
Alternate asexual and sexual generations are known, both of which induce galls on 
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFEBFF9EFB08FEA8FA737A6C" box="[1257,1429,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">Q. oblongifolia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Sexual catkin galls mature in April, adults emerge soon afterwards. The asexual fluffy leaf galls mature in October-November; adults overwinter in the galls and emerge the following spring.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFEBFF9EFF76F92DFE947DEF" bold="true" box="[151,370,1742,1766]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">FIGURES 360–363.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C2F4D10FFEBFF9EFE9CF92CFC827DEF" authority="Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone" authorityName="Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone" authorityYear="2021" box="[381,868,1742,1766]" class="Insecta" family="Cynipidae" genus="Neuroterus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="98" pageNumber="99" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aliceae" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFEBFF9EFE9CF92CFDA57DEF" box="[381,579,1742,1766]" italics="true" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">Neuroterus aliceae</emphasis>
Melika, Nicholls &amp; Stone
</taxonomicName>
, 
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFEBFF9EFC92F92DFC2E7DEF" bold="true" box="[883,968,1742,1766]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A26857FAFFEBFF9EFC92F92DFC2E7DEF" box="[883,968,1742,1766]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
, sexual generation, female. 360, mesosoma and propleura, frontal view, 361–362, mesosoma: 361, lateral view, 362, dorsal view. 363, metascutellum and propodeum, posterodorsal view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8B903693FFEBFF9EFF26F8BFFAD17CB6" blockId="98.[151,1437,1884,2018]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">
Alternate generations (and males/females within the sexual generation) were matched using DNA data. Five individuals were sequenced for cytb, with between 0 and 0.23% divergence apparent (GenBank 
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– 
<accessionNumber id="947CAB70FFEBFF9EFF76F847FEFE7CB6" box="[151,280,1956,1983]" httpUri="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/OK346305" pageId="98" pageNumber="99" type="GenBank">OK346305</accessionNumber>
), while four individuals showed at most 0.20% divergence for ITS2 (
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– 
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B903693FFEBFF9EFF26F82BFCDB7CEB" blockId="98.[151,1437,1884,2018]" box="[199,829,1992,2018]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">
<emphasis id="B95BEA81FFEBFF9EFF26F82BFE877CEB" bold="true" box="[199,353,1992,2018]" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">Distribution.</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="F3387603FFEBFF9EFE86F82BFE447CEB" box="[359,418,1992,2018]" name="United States of America" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">USA</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingRegion id="49EBF871FFEBFF9EFE4DF82BFDEF7CEB" box="[428,521,1992,2018]" country="United States of America" name="Arizona" pageId="98" pageNumber="99">Arizona</collectingRegion>
, 
<location id="8EF06048FFEBFF9EFDF5F82BFDB47CEB" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03868785FFD4FF9EFF76FC35FCDB7CEB:8EF06048FFEBFF9EFDF5F82BFDB47CEB" box="[532,594,1992,2018]" country="United States of America" name="Santa" pageId="98" pageNumber="99" stateProvince="Arizona">Santa</location>
Catalina Mountains.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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