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Andricus Hartig

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

Andricus Hartig, 1840

ClassificationCynipoidea keys
 

Andricus aries (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus assarehi

Andricus atkinsonae

Andricus atrimentus (striped volcano gall wasp)

Andricus bakkeri (Lyon, 1984)

Andricus brunneus (clustered gall wasp)

Andricus burnetti

Andricus caputmedusae (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus cecconii (Kieffer, 1901)

Andricus chinquapin (Fitch) (small oak spindle gall wasp)

Andricus chodjaii

Andricus chrysolepidicola (irregular spindle gall wasp)

Andricus confertus (convoluted gall wasp)

Andricus conglomeratus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus conificus (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus coortus (club gall wasp)

Andricus coquilletti (little oak apple gall wasp)

Andricus coriariformis

Andricus coriarius (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus coronatus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus corruptrix (Schlechtendal, 1870)

Andricus crispator (Tschek, 1871)

Andricus crystallinus (Bassett, 1900) (crystalline gall wasp)

Andricus csokai

Andricus curvator (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus cylindratum (Kinsey, 1937)

Andricus dentimitratus (Rejtö, 1887)

Andricus dimorphus (clustered midrib gall wasp)

Andricus foecundatrix (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus flavohirtus (Beutenmüller, 1913)

Andricus foliaformis

Andricus fullawayi (Beutenmüller, 1913)

Andricus galeatus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus gallaetinctoriae (Olivier, 1791)

Andricus gallaeurnaeformis (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1832)

Andricus gigas (Kinsey, 1922) (saucer gall wasp)

Andricus glutinosus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus grossulariae (Giraud, 1859)

Andricus hastata (Kinsey, 1937)

Andricus hungaricus (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus ignotus

Andricus incertus

Andricus infectorius (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus inflator (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus insana (Westwood, 1837)

Andricus istvani

Andricus kingi (Bassett, 1900) (red cone gall wasp)

Andricus kollari (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus lasius (hairy gall wasp

Andricus libani

Andricus lignicola (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus lucidus (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus malpighii (Adler, 1881)

Andricus megatruncicolus

Andricus melikai (Pujade-Villar & Kwast)

Andricus mitratus (Mayr, 1870)

Andricus morula (Shachar et al., 2017)

Andricus multiplicatus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus niger

Andricus nigricens

Andricus opertus (Weld, 1926) (fimbriate gall wasp)

Andricus panteli (Kieffer, 1896)

Andricus parmula (Bassett, 1900) (disc gall wasp)

Andricus pattersonae (plate gall wasp)

Andricus pattoni

Andricus pedicellatus (hair stalk gall wasp)

Andricus perlentus (Kinsey, 1937)

Andricus polycerus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus pseudoaries

Andricus pseudocurvator (Tang et al., 2011)

Andricus pujadevillari

Andricus quadrilineatus (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus quercuscalicis (Burgsdorf, 1783) (knopper gall wasp)
Andricus quercuscalifornicus (Bassett, 1881) (California gall wasp)

 

Andricus quercusflocci (Walsh, 1864)

Andricus quercusfoliatus (Ashmead, 1881) (leafy oak gall wasp)

Andricus quercuslanigera (wool-bearing gall wasp)

Andricus quercusostensackenii

Andricus quercuspetiolicola (oak petiole gall wasp)

Andricus quercusradicis (Fabricius, 1798)

Andricus quercusramuli (Linnaeus, 1761)

Andricus quercussingularis (small oak apple gall wasp)

Andricus quercustozae (Bosc, 1792)

Andricus quercusstrobilanus

Andricus rhyzomae (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus sadeghii

Andricus schoenroggei

Andricus serricornis (Kinsey, 1922)

Andricus sessilum

Andricus sieboldi (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus solitarius (Fonscolombe, 1832)

Andricus songshui (Tang et al., 2011)

Andricus splendens

Andricus stellaris (sunburst gall wasp

Andricus stellulus (Burnett, 1974) (stellar gall wasp)

Andricus stonei

Andricus sulfureus

Andricus testaceipes (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus tomentosa (Trotter, 1901)

Andricus truncicola (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus vacciniifoliae (oak apple wasp)
 

There are ca 375 species in total, but taxonomy is uncertain and far from stable with many more or less dubious taxa (Buffington et al 2020).
Distribution Holarctic, Oriental, Nearctic, 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 20:1–38.

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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