Neuroterus q-stellata-hole-punch-gall (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Neuroterus
Hosts: Quercus macrocarpa / Quercus stellata
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray, white, green, tan
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular, numerous
Season: Summer, Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, on leaf veins, between leaf veins
Form: leaf curl
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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Numerous small integral leaf galls on Quercus macrocarpa and stellata, similar to the sexual generation gall of Neuroterus floccosus but differing in being covered in tufts of white hair and in causing the leaf to curl severely, sometimes senesce beyond dense clusters of galls, and especially in causing the leaf lamina to contract so much around the galls that it creates a hole. As the gall develops, sometimes the leaf contracts enough that the gall drops out of the leaf, leaving a hole in the lamina. Fresh galls were observed in May in Kansas and Manitoba in June, old galls in Ohio in August. Male and female Neuroterus wasps have been reared from these galls.
”- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©
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