Neuroterus hakonensis Ashmead, 1904

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 : 28-29

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scientific name	Neuroterus hakonensis Ashmead, 1904
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Neuroterus hakonensis Ashmead, 1904: 79 , ǒ.

Distribution. China (Shandong Province) ( Ju et al. 2022: in press), Japan (Honshu) ( Ashmead 1904: 79; Monzen 1929: 350, Monzen 1931: 193, Monzen 1954: 29; Shinji 1944: 119; Sakagami 1952: 72), and Korean Peninsula ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2020a: 1215).

Remarks. Monzen (1954) identified the host plant of N. hakonensis as Q. acutissima (sect. Cerris ) while Shinji (1944) identified the host plant as Q. serrata (sect. Quercus ). Based on very strong oak section conservatism in a single generation of almost all Cynipini ( Stone et al. 2009) , both are unlikely to be true, and we regard the host(s) of this species as in need of confirmation.

Biology. Only the asexual generation has been described, which induces detachable leaf galls on an undetermined Quercus (see Remarks above) ( Table 1; Monzen 1954).

References

Ashmead, W. H. (1904) Description of new Hymenoptera from Japan (I). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 12 (3), 65 - 84.

Ju, X., Zhao, H., Liu, H., Wang, Y., Sala-Nishikawa, A., Cuesta-Porta, V. & Pujade-Villar, J. (2022) Four oak gall-inducing species in China, with a redescription of Belizinella vicina Kovalev (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zoological Systematics, 47 [in press].

Monzen, K. (1929) Studies on galls. Saito-hoonkai-jigyo-nenpo, 5, 295 - 368 + 20. [in Japanese]

Monzen, K. (1931) On Japanese gallwasps. Oyo-doubutsugaku-zasshi, 3, 192 - 200. [in Japanese]

Monzen, K. (1954) Revision of the Japanese gall wasps with the descriptions of new genus, subgenus, species and subspecies (II). Cynipidae (Cynipinae) Hymenoptera. Annual Reports of Gakugei Faculty of Iwate University, 6, 24 - 38.

Pujade-Villar, J., Kang, M., Bae, J., Wang, Y., Guo, R., Roca-Cusachs, M. & Jung, S. (2020 a) Current state of knowledge of the Korean Cynipini: Subspecies description, new combinations and checklist (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Journal of AsiaPacific Entomology, 23 (4), 1208 - 1221. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. aspen. 2020.08.012

Sakagami, S. (1952) Zur Cynipoidenfauna Japan und seiner Nachbarlander (Hymenoptera). Mushi, 24, 67 - 79.

Shinji, O. (1944) Galls and gall insects. Shunyo-do, Tokyo, 580 pp. [in Japanese]

Stone, G. N., Hernandez-Lopez, A., Nicholls, J. A., di Pierro, E., Pujade-Villar, J., Melika, G. & Cook, J. M. (2009) Extreme host plant conservatism during at least 20 million years of host plant pursuit by oak gallwasps. Evolution, 63, 854 - 869. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1558 - 5646.2008.00604. x

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Cynipidae
Tribe	Cynipini
Genus	Neuroterus

Neuroterus hakonensis Ashmead, 1904

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

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