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Neuroterus tantulus
2222_1358 Photo added 2007-08-19

Neuroterus tantulus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
Cornell Plantations, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York
July 6, 2007

Identified with the help of Kathy Schick and Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States by Lewis H. Weld (1959). The galls in this photo are about 1mm in diameter and are on the underside of the leaf (not visible in this photo); they leave scars on both sides of the leaf. On Quercus alba (white oak).

all photos and text © Joyce Gross