Cycloneuroterus arakashiphagus Ide, Wachi & Abe, 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 : 18-19

Cycloneuroterus arakashiphagus Ide, Wachi & Abe, 2012

Cycloneuroterus arakashiphagus Ide, Wachi & Abe in Ide et al. (2012: 542), ♂ ♀ & ǒ.

Distribution. Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku) ( Yukawa & Masuda 1996: 124, 126; Ide et al. 2012: 545).

Remarks. The alternating lifecycle was closed and the sexual and asexual galls were depicted by Yukawa & Masuda (1996). The sexual adults were described by Ide et al. (2012). The asexual generation adults have not yet been reared.

Remarks (2). Yukawa & Masuda (1996) photographed a sexual gall and named it ‘Kashi-wakame-ko-muretama-fushi’ (C-054). Later, Ide et al. (2012) said that this gall corresponded to the new species C. arakashiphagus . Yukawa & Masuda (1996) described the asexual gall as ‘Kashi-ha-tsuto-tama-fushi’ (C-059), which belongs to an undescribed species.

Biology. The sexual generation galls develop on young shoots or very young leaves, and the asexual galls are detachable leaf galls, in both cases on Q. glauca (sect. Cyclobalanopsis ) ( Table 1; Yukawa & Masuda 1996; Ide et al. 2012).