Ufo cerroneuroteri Tang & Melika, 2012

IRENE LOBATO-VILA, ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA, GEORGE MELIKA, GRAHAM N. STONE, CHANGTI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, ZHIQIANG FANG, YING ZHU, YIPING WANG, SUNGHOON JUNG, JAMES A. NICHOLLS & JULI PUJADE-VILLAR, 2022, A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini), Zootaxa 5161 (1), pp. 1-71 : 44

Ufo cerroneuroteri Tang & Melika, 2012

Ufo cerroneuroteri Tang & Melika in Melika et al. (2012): 147 , ♀ & ♂.

Distribution. Taiwan ( Melika et al. 2012: 147, 150), China (Zhejiang Province) ( Wang et al. 2016c: 222), and South Korea ( Melika et al. 2012: 156, Ufo koreanus section).

Remarks. According to Melika et al. (2012), a paratype of U. koreanus labelled ‘ KOREA, NIAST, 10. Oct. 1997, YPT., June Yeol Choi.’ belongs to U. cerroneuroteri .

Remarks (2). Ufo koreanus was originally thought to have been reared from galls of Neuroterus nawai (now Latuspina nawai ) ( Melika et al. 2007) on Q. variabilis ( Melika et al. 2012) , and not Biorhiza nawai as presumed in Lobato-Vila et al. (2020d) and reconfirmed in Lobato-Vila et al. (2021b). However, the host gall mentioned in Melika et al. (2007), which was later pictured in Melika et al. (2010, 2012) corresponds to the asexual generation of Cerroneuroterus yukawamasudai (see Remarks 2 for Latuspina nawai ).

Biology. Reared from galls of Cerroneuroterus japonicus (= C. vonkuenburgi ) ŏ and C. yukawamasudai ŏ on Q. variabilis (sect. Cerris ) ( Table 2; Melika et al. 2007, 2012), and a gall, probably of Trichagalma , on the underside of leaves of Q. chenii Nakai (sect. Cerris ) (Wang et al. 2016).