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Diplolepis valtonyci Zhu, Wang & Pujade-Villar

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family: Diplolepididae; Subfamily: Diplolepidinae; Genus: Diplolepis)

Diplolepis valtonyci Zhu, Wang & Pujade-Villar, 2021.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

Diplolepis valtonyci (a) general habitus female, (b) general habitus male, (c) antenna female, (d) antenna male, (e) female head in dorsal view, (f) male head in dorsal view.


Diplolepis valtonyci (a) head in frontal view, (b) forewing, (c) mesosoma in lateral view, (d) metasoma in lateral view, (e) mesosoma in dorsal view, (f) propodeum. Galls: (g) older galls on Rosa rugosa, (h) young galls on R. davurica.


Distribution China.
Biology Gall inducer on Rosa rugosa Thunb. (1784) and R. davurica Pall. (1788) (Rosaceae).

References

Zhu, Q., Looney, C., Chen, T., Cuesta-Porta, V., Zoltán, L., Wang, Y., & Pujade-Villar, J. 2021. A new species of Diplolepis Geoffroy (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Diplolepidini) from northeastern China. Zootaxa 4985(2): 219–234. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4985.2.5

Credits

Photographs © Qifan Zhu (Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Lin’an).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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