Orchestes quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Quercus robur, Castricum
Quercus robur, Aalten
Quercus robur, Duin en Kruidberg
Quercus robur, Hollandsche Rading: oviposition scar, and beginning of the corridor within the midrib
mine
Oviposition in the underside of the midrib or, more rarely, a thick lateral vein. Here a conspicuous scar remains. Form this point a corridor starts, first within the midrib, later running freely in the leaf into the direction of the leaf tip, gradually widening. In the end a large blotch is formed. Frass in thread fragments, pasted to the upper epidermis. The mature larva, within the mine, extrudes a liquid that hardens and forms a globular cocoon in which the pupation takes place.
Old mines mostly completely wither away, but their former presence remains recognisable in the cleft leaf tip, in combination with the old oviposition scar.
host plants
Fagaceae, broadly monophagous
Quercus cerris, frainetto, “lanuginosa”, petraea, pubescens, robur, rubra
Also on all sorts of introduced Oak species (Welch, 1994a).
phenology
Larvae in May-June (Hering, 1957a). Adults emerge in late June (Rheinheimer & Hassler, 2010a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (Curculionidae.be, 2010).
NE recorded (Heijerman, 1993a).
LUX recorded (Ellis, Clervaux).
distribution within Europe
From Ireland, the UK, France and Italy to Central Europe; not in Scandinavia, the Iberian and Balkan Peninsulas (Fauna Europaea, 2007).
larva
pupa
Scherf (1964a).
synonyms
Rhynchaenus quercus.
parasitoids, predators
? Pnigalio agraules; Tetrastichus miser.
references
Beiger (1979a), Buhr (1933a, 1964a), Caillol (1954a), Compte (1981a), Csóka (2003a), Delbol (2013a), Dieckmann & Herger (1985a), Drăghia (1971a), Forbicioni, Abbazzi, Bellò ao (2019a), van Frankenhuyzen & Houtman (1972a), van Frankenhuyzen Houtman & Kabos (1982a), Haase (1942a), Heijerman (1993a), Hering (1924a,b, 1930a, 1934a, 1957a), Kleine (1924a), Kollár & Hrubík (2009a), Maček (1999a), Matošević, Pernek, Dubravac & Barić (2009a), Michalska (1972a, 1976a), Michna (1975a), le Monnier (2003a), Rheinheimer & Hassler (2010a), Robbins (1991a), Skala (1951a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Sønderup (1949a), Stammer (2016a), Tomov & Dimitrov (2007a), Trägårdh (1910a), Ureche (2010a), Welch (1994a), Vorst (2010a), van Wielink (2020a), Yunakov, Nazarenko, Filimonov & Volovnik (2018a), Zoerner (1969a).