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Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Oak Spangle Gall Wasp)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The common spangle gall on the underside of leaves and the currant gall on the male catkins or occasionally the leaves, develop as chemically induced distortions on pedunculate oak (Quercus robur), or sessile oak (Quercus petraea) trees, caused by the cynipid wasp Neuroterus quercusbaccarum which has both agamic and bisexual generations. Previous names or synonyms for this species are Neuroterus baccarum, N. lenticularis, N. malpighii, Cynips lenticularis, C. quercus-baccarum, Spathegaster baccarum, S. varius, S. interruptor.
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Infraspecies

Neuroterus quercusbaccarum f. agamic
Neuroterus quercusbaccarum f. quercusbaccarum
Neuroterus quercusbaccarum f. sexual

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Predators

Aulogymnus arsames[2]
Eurytoma brunniventris[2]
Mesopolobus sericeus[2]
Mesopolobus tibialis[2]
Torymus flavipes[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Eupelmus annulatus[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Ecology of Commanster
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0