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Pseudoneuroterus Kinsey 1923
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Description
Pseudoneuroterus sp. 2
Host plant in Israel. Q. ithaburensis.
Life history. This species is currently known only from its sexual generation, which develops in cryptic, ovoid galls, 4–7 mm in diameter, in apical buds (Fig. 53). The galls are soft, light green, with velvety white cover.
Phenology. Galls were found in early February and adults emerged from them in early March.
Distribution. Israel: Mezar, Hosha’aya, Alonim, Hasharon Forest.
Comments. Mrphological and molecular data (Shachar, unpulished) place this specis in Pseudoneuroterus but due to the small number of adults we obtained, the species is not described here formally and will be dealt with once more material become available.
Notes
Published as part of Shachar, Einat, Melika, George, Inbar, Moshe & Dorchin, Netta, 2018, The oak gall wasps of Israel (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) - diversity, distribution and life history, pp. 451-498 in Zootaxa 4521 (4) on page 479, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610021
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kinsey
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Cynipidae
- Genus
- Pseudoneuroterus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudoneuroterus Kinsey, 1923 sec. Shachar, Melika, Inbar & Dorchin, 2018