Pseudoneuroterus mazandarani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Cynipidae
Genus:
Pseudoneuroterus
Species:
P. mazandarani
Binomial name
Pseudoneuroterus mazandarani
Melika and Stone, 2010[1]

Pseudoneuroterus mazandarani is a gall wasp species in the family Cynipidae whose life cycle involves only Palaearctic oaks, Quercus subgen. Quercus, in the section Cerris.[1] The species is named for the Mazandaran province of Iran where it was collected.[1] Gall wasps evolved in the Northern Hemisphere and started as herb gallers. Through natural selection they went through a period where they lost the ability to initiate galls and later regained it back. (Stone, 2002) It is suggested the first gall wasps were associated with woody host plants.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Melika G, Pujade-Villar J, Abe Y, Tang CT, Nicholls J, Wachi N, Ide T, Yang MM, Penzes Z, Gyorgy C, Stone GN (2010). "Palaearctic oak gallwasps galling oaks (Quercus) in the section Cerris: re-appraisal of generic limits, with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2470: 1–79. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2470.1.1.

Stone, G. N., Schönrogge, K., Atkinson, R. J., Bellido, D., & Pujade-Villar, J. (2002). THE POPULATION BIOLOGY OF OAK GALL WASPS (HYMENOPTERA: CYNIPIDAE). Annual Review of Entomology, 47(1), 633–668. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145247


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