Aulacidea Walsh

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family: Cynipidae; Subfamily: Cynipinae; Tribe: Aulacideini)

Aulacidea Ashmead, 1897;

	Aulacidea abdita Kinsey Aulacidea acroptilonica Tyurebaev Aulacidea ambrosiaecola (Ashmead) Aulacidea andrei (Kieffer) Aulacidea annulata Kinsey Aulacidea arnicae Hoffmeyer, 1930 Aulacidea ascanica Dyakonchuk Aulacidea diakontschukae Melika & Klymenko Aulacidea discolor Dyakontshuk Aulacidea follioti Barbotin Aulacidea freesei Nieves-Aldrey Aulacidea harringtoni (Ashmead) Aulacidea hieracii (Linnaeus) Aulacidea irani Melika & Gharaei Aulacidea kiefferi Cotte Aulacidea koelpiniae Dyakontshuk Aulacidea laurae Nieves-Aldrey Aulacidea martae Nieves-Aldrey Aulacidea nabali (Brodie) Aulacidea nibletti Quinlan & Askew Aulacidea parvula Diakontshuk Aulacidea phlomica Belizin Aulacidea pilosellae (Kieffer) Aulacidea podagrae (Bassett) Aulacidea pumila (Giraud) Aulacidea rubi Diakontshuk Aulacidea schlechtendali (Rübsaamen) Aulacidea scorzonerae (Giraud) Aulacidea serratulae Diakontshuk
	Aulacidea subterminalis Niblett, 1946
	Aulacidea taurica (Belizin) Aulacidea tavakolii Melika Aulacidea tobiasi Melika Aulacidea tragopogonis (Thomson) Aulacidea tragopogonis celata Kierych Aulacidea tumida (Bassett)
38 species in total.

Distribution	Nearctic and Palaearctic regions. Introduced to Australasian region (New Zealand).
Biology	Gall inducers on various herbaceous plants (Ronquist et al., 2015). Aulacidea subterminalis has been used in the biological control of invasive weeds in North America (APHIS, 2011) and New Zealand (Klöppel et al., 2003; Syrett et al., 2001).
Links	Landcare Research New Zealand fact sheet USDA fact sheet
References	Buffington ML, Forshage M, Liljeblad J, Tang CT, van Noort, S. 2020. World Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera):a key to higher-level groups. Insect Systematics and Diversity 4(4): 1–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixaa003 Klöppel M, Smith L, Syrett P. 2003. Predicting the impact of the biocontrol agent Aulacidea subterminalis (Cynipidae) on growth of Hieracium pilosella (Asteraceae) under differing environmental conditions in New Zealand. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 13: 207-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/0958315021000073478 Ritchie, A.J. 1993. Superfamily Cynipoidea (pp. 521-536). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp. Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica Scripta 28:139–164. Ronquist, F. & Liljeblad, J. 2001. Evolution of the gall wasp–host plant association. Evolution 55: 2503–2522. Ronquist, F., Nieves-Aldrey, J.-L., Buffington, M. L., Liu, Z., Liljeblad, J., & Nylander, J. A. A. 2015. Phylogeny, Evolution and Classification of Gall Wasps: The Plot Thickens. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0123301. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123301 Syrett, P., L. Smith, G. Grosskopf, and C. Meurk. 2001. Predicting the likely success of biocontrol of hawkweeds in New Zealand. Plant Prot. Quar. 16: 172–176. Ward, D. 2014. Overview and key to the New Zealand Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa. 3878. 563-579. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3878.6.4
Credits	Photographs © Darren Ward (New Zealand Arthropod Collection on Flickr ).

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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