Neuroterus saltatorius (texanus) (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Neuroterus
Detachable: detachable
Color: white
Texture:
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Fall
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
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Cells:
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy: Pending...
Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
The Gall Wasp Genus Neuroterus
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Neuroterus saltatorius variety texanus, new variety
GALL. — About globose, hardly any longer than high or wide, entirely irregularly roughened, without a trace of a distinct tip apically; gall small; on Quercus virginiana (fig. 28).
RANGE. — Texas: Austin (Patterson coll.); Yoakum, Skidmore, Hondo, (Leander?).
I have galls of this variety from several localities, but Dr. Patterson has succeeded in breeding the wasp. He states that the galls appear late in the fall, the insects emerging by March 8 in 1922. My Leander record may apply to a distinct variety confined to a small area in Central Texas.
”- Alfred Kinsey: (1923) The Gall Wasp Genus Neuroterus©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53512324#page/312/mode/1up
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