Latuspina, Monzen, 1954

IRENE LOBATO-VILA, ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA, GEORGE MELIKA, GRAHAM N. STONE, CHANGTI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, ZHIQIANG FANG, YING ZHU, YIPING WANG, SUNGHOON JUNG, JAMES A. NICHOLLS & JULI PUJADE-VILLAR, 2022, A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini), Zootaxa 5161 (1), pp. 1-71 : 28

Latuspina stirps ( Monzen, 1954)

Neuroterus (Latuspina) stirps Monzen, 1954: 35, ♂ ♀.

Latuspina stirps (Monzen): 35, ♂ ♀ & ǒ [in Melika et al. (2010: 18) ].

Distribution. Japan (Honshu, Kyushu) ( Monzen 1954: 36; Yukawa & Masuda 1996: 135, 137; Melika et al. 2010: 20) and South Korea ( Abe et al. 2007: 200; Melika et al. 2010: 20).

Remarks. The alternating lifecycle was closed by Yukawa & Masuda (1996) and the asexual generation was described by Ide & Abe (2016).

Remarks (2). Yukawa & Masuda (1996) photographed the gall of the sexual generation and described it as ‘Kunugi-me-ko-togari-tama-fushi’ (C-080), and the asexual generation as ‘Kunugi-ha-suji-ko-toge-tama-fushi’ (C-085). Ide & Abe (2016) mentioned that these galls correspond to the sexual and asexual generations of the redescribed L. stirps.

Remarks (3). Ide & Abe (2016) cited Inoue (1960) as a reference for Neuroterus (Latuspina) stirps Monzen; unfortunately, we could not check this publication.

Biology. The sexual generation induces bud and detachable twig galls, while the asexual generation induces detachable leaf galls, both on Q. acutissima (sect. Cerris ) ( Table 1; Ide & Abe 2016).