Neuroterus
| Neuroterus | |
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| Neuroterus albipes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Tribe: | Cynipini |
| Genus: | Neuroterus Hartig, 1840 |
| Species | |
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Many; see text | |
Neuroterus is a genus of gall wasps. Some species produce galls that fall off the host plant and jump along the ground due to the movement of the larvae within.
Neuroterus saltatorius—formerly named Cynips saltatorius—produces such Mexican jumping bean-like jumping galls about 1 to 1.5 mm in diameter.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ W.P. Armstrong. "California's Amazing Jumping Galls". 1997.
- ^ Missouri Botanical Garden. "Jumping oak galls".
- ^ George Melika; James A. Nicholls; Warren Abrahamson; Eileen A. Buss; Graham N. Stone (23 December 2021). "New species of Nearctic oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)". Zootaxa. 5084 (1): 1–131. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5084.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q110307168.
- ^ Pedro Ferreira Pinto Brandão-Dias; Y. Miles Zhang; Stacy Pirro; Camila C. Vinson; Kelly L. Weinersmith; Anna K. G. Ward; Andrew A. Forbes; Scott P. Egan (10 January 2022). "Describing biodiversity in the genomics era: A new species of Nearctic Cynipidae gall wasp and its genome". Systematic Entomology. 47: 94–112. doi:10.1111/SYEN.12521. ISSN 0307-6970. Wikidata Q110526665.
External links[]
Media related to Neuroterus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Neuroterus at Wikispecies
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Categories:
- Cynipidae
- Hymenoptera genera
- Taxa named by Theodor Hartig
- Apocrita stubs
- Taxa described in 1840