Cerroneuroterus aggregatus ( Wachtl, 1880 )

Şchiopu, Ion, 2025, Gall wasps-inducers and inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae and Diplolepididae) from Dobrogea Province (South-Eastern of Romania), including new species records for this area, Zootaxa 5665 (1), pp. 1-36 : 16

Cerroneuroterus aggregatus ( Wachtl, 1880) (**) ( Fig. 11 A , Table 1)

[syn. Neuroterus aggregatus ( Wachtl, 1880) ]

Host plant/gall: Q. cer .—grouped ovoidal galls (2x 3 mm) in adventitious buds of the trunk (- s -)

Distribution in Dobrogea: Dumbrӑveni, Neptun (Comorova forest) CT county (Şchiopu, herein recorded).

World distribution: Austria ( Wachtl, 1880; Dalla Torre & Kieffer, 1910), Hungary ( Ambrus, 1974; Melika et al. 2000), Italy ( Sottile et al. 2024).

(**) first recorded in Romania’s fauna.

Figures

FIGURE 11. A. Cerroneuroterus aggregatus (Wachtl, 1880)—galls of sexual generation on bark B. Cerroneuroterus obtectus (Wachtl, 1880)—galls of sexual generation in buds, both species on Quercus cerris L. (Photo: I. Şchiopu).