Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Common Spangle Gall Wasp, Currant Gall Wasp)

Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Common Spangle Gall Wasp, Currant Gall Wasp) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Common Spangle Gall Wasp, Currant Gall Wasp) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesNeuroterus quercusbaccarum (Common Spangle Gall Wasp, Currant Gall Wasp)
GenusNeuroterus (spangle gall wasps)
TribeCynipini (a tribe of hymenopterans)
FamilyCYNIPIDAE (gall wasps etc)
SuperfamilyCYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Common Spangle Gall Wasp, Currant Gall Wasp)

Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Common Spangle Gall Wasp, Currant Gall Wasp) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

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Parasitoids

Plantard, O., Rasplus, J.-Y. & Hochberg, M.E. 1996 Resource partitioning in the parasitoid assemblage of the oak galler Neuroterus quercusbaccarum L. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) Acta Oecologica Vol 17 (1): 1-15.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Common Spangle Gall Wasp, Currant Gall Wasp):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 70 images of Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Common Spangle Gall Wasp, Currant Gall Wasp)

Usually the most abundant spangle gall on the underside of oak leaves in late summer.

2007 was unusual in that it was completely absent over most of Britain, although there were sometimes signs of tiny aborted galls. N. numismalis and N. tricolor maintained their normal frequency.

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