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Amphibolips Reinhard

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

Amphibolips Reinhard, 1865

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

  Amphibolips acuminatus Ashmead, 1896
Amphibolips aliciae
Amphibolips arbensis
Mehes, 1953
Amphibolips castroviejoi
Amphibolips cibriani
Pujade-Villar, 2018
Amphibolips confluenta
(spongy oak apple gall wasp)
Amphibolips cookii
Gillette, 1888
Amphibolips ellipsoidalis
Weld
Amphibolips gainesi
Bassett, 1900
Amphibolips globulus
Beutenmüller
Amphibolips globus
Weld
Amphibolips hidalgoensis Reinhard, 1865
  Amphibolips melanocera Ashmead
Amphibolips montana
Beutenmüller
Amphibolips murata
Weld, 1957
Amphibolips nassa
Amphibolips nigra
Beutenmüller
Amphibolips nubilipennis
(translucent oak gall wasp)
Amphibolips quercusinanis
(larger empty oak apple wasp)
Amphibolips quercusjuglans
(Osten Sacken, 1862) (acorn plum gall wasp)
Amphibolips quercusspongifica
Amphibolips racemaria
Ashmead
Amphibolips salicifoliae
Amphibolips spinosa
Ashmead, 1887
Amphibolips tinctoriae
Ashmead
Amphibolips trizonata
Ashmead, 1897
Amphibolips zacatecaensis
 

There are 53 species of Amphibolips in total (Buffington et al 2020).

Distribution Neartic and Neotropical regions.
Biology Gall inducers on species of Quercus.

References

Bassett, H. F. 1881. New Species of Cynipidae. The Canadian Entomologist. 13: 51–53. doi:10.4039/Ent1351-3

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

Mayr, G. 1881. Die genera der gallenbewohnenden Cynipiden. Jahresberichte der Rossauer Communal Oberrealschule im I. Bezirke 20:138.

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

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Photographs © Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS)


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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