#3523 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Common Spangle Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Gewone lensgalwesp ·Neuroterus quercusbaccarum
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what is it?
The common spangle gall on the underside of leaves and the currant gall on the male catkins or occasionally the leaves, develop as chemically induced distortions on pedunculate oak ( Quercus robur ), or sessile oak ( Quercus petraea ) trees, caused by the cynipid wasp Neuroterus quercusbaccarum which has both agamic and bisexual generations.
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 226 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #21 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
- 14,763 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Spangle Gall Wasp
- Nederlands
- Gewone lensgalwesp
- scientific name
- Neuroterus quercusbaccarum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Cynipidae
- sightings in NL
- 226
- sightings in Europe
- 13,700
- sightings worldwide
- 14,763
- GBIF records in NL
- 11,355
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Cynipidae
#3515 📷 8Oak Marble Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Knikkergalwesp
Andricus kollari
👀 484 in NL
#3524 📷 7Oak Apple Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Aardappelgalwesp
Biorhiza pallida
👀 226 in NL
#3525 📷 9Oak Artichoke Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Ananasgalwesp
Andricus foecundatrix
👀 211 in NL
#3530 📷 10Smooth Spangle Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Plaatjesgalwesp
Neuroterus albipes
👀 196 in NL
#3532 📷 10Striped Pea Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Eikenstuitergalwesp
Cynips longiventris
👀 180 in NL
#3534 📷 10Knopper Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Knoppergalwesp
Andricus quercuscalicis
👀 168 in NL
#3535 📷 8Cherry Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Galappelwesp
Cynips quercusfolii
👀 165 in NL
#3537 📷 7Silk-Button Spangle Gall Wasp
🇳🇱 Satijnen knoopjesgalwesp
Neuroterus numismalis
👀 150 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 55598, Wikidata Q1905281, GBIF 1309692, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.