Zopheroteras cuneatum, new species

Host: Quercus alba

Conical, red, 3.0-4.4 mm. long by 1.5 mm. broad at base, attached to the very base of the petiole in fall just as the leaves are turning. On young trees or sprouts from stumps. Rare.

Habitat: VA, MO, AR

On October 17, 1938, the living adult was cut out of a gall collected just a year previously at East Falls Church, Va. Galls have been seen at Ironton, Mo., and at Hot Springs and Texarkana, Ark.

- LH Weld: (1944) New American Cynipids from galls^©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32802#page/28/mode/1up