#3530 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Smooth Spangle Gall Wasp

🇳🇱 Plaatjesgalwesp ·Neuroterus albipes

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0
2. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © AnneTanne · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Wolf-Achim and Hanna Roland · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Alkmaar, Nederland:© Joost . · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Generaal Spoorkazerne, Ermelo, Gelderland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. Noordwijk, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
9. Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. Ammersche Boezem, Brandwijk, Zuid-Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Neuroterus albipes is a gall wasp that forms chemically induced leaf galls on oak trees which has both bisexual and agamic generations and therefore forms two distinct galls, the smooth spangle gall and Schenck's gall . Neuroterus laeviusculus and Spathegaster albipes are previous binomials found in the literature.

base stats

NL sightings 196iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,061iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).