Cerroneuroterus yukawamasudai Pujade-Villar & Melika, 2020

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 : 17-18

Cerroneuroterus yukawamasudai Pujade-Villar & Melika, 2020

Cerroneuroterus yukawamasudai Pujade-Villar & Melika in Pujade-Villar et al. (2020d: 518) , ♂ ♀ & ǒ.

Distribution. China (Shandong Province) and Japan ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2020d: 518).

Remarks. In Yukawa & Masuda (1996), the sexual gall is named as ‘Kunugi-hana-ko-kuro-tama-fushi’ (C-098), while the asexual gall is named as ‘Kunugi-ha-ke-tsubo-tama-fushi’ (C-091), ‘abemaki-ha-ura-ke-tsubo-tamafushi’ (C-047) and is also shown without a name (C-092, the gall at right). Pujade-Villar et al. (2020d) concluded that those galls correspond to a new species, named Cerroneuroterus yukawamasudai .

Remarks (2). The asexual females were described by Pujade-Villar et al. (2020d). T he alternating lifecycle was closed, and the sexual and asexual galls were described, by Yukawa & Masuda (1996).

Biology. The catkin galls of the sexual generation and the detachable leaf galls of the asexual generation both develop on Q. acutissima and Q. variabilis (sect. Cerris ) ( Table 1; Yukawa & Masuda 1996; Pujade-Villar et al. 2020d).