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Plagiotrochus Mayr

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

Plagiotrochus Mayr, 1881.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

 

Plagiotrochus amenti Kieffer

 

Plagiotrochus glaucus Melika & Tang, 2011 (Taiwan)

Plagiotrochus hepingensis Wang, Wang & Zhu, 2021 (China)

 

Plagiotrochus indochinensis Abe, Ide, Konishi & Ueno, 2014 (Vietnam)

 

Plagiotrochus kunugiphagus (Ide & Abe, 2015) (Korea)

 

Plagiotrochus masudai Ide, Wachi & Abe, 2010 (Japan)

  Plagiotrochus semicarpifoliae (Cameron, 1902)
  plus another 16 species

Distribution

Oriental, Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Gall inducers on species of Quercus (Fagaceae).

References

Abe, Y., Ide, T., Konishi, K. & Ueno, T. 2014. Discovery of Cynipidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea) from the Indochina region, with description of three new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107: 399–406. https://doi.org/10.1603/AN13180
Abe, Y., Melika, G. & Stone, G.N. 2007. The diversity and phylogeography of cynipid gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) of the Eastern Palaearctic and their associated communities. Oriental Insects 41: 169–212. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2007.10417504
Bassett, H. F. 1881. New Species of Cynipidae. The Canadian Entomologist. 13: 51–53. doi:10.4039/Ent1351-3

Bellido, D., Ros-Farré, P., Kovalev, O. & Pujade-Villar, J. 2000. Presence of Plagiotrochus Mayr, 1881 in the Himalayan area, with redescription of Plagiotrochus semicarpifoliae (Cameron, 1902) comb. n. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Insect systematics & evolution 31 (3): 241–245.

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.

Melika G, Pujade-Villar J, Nicholls JA, Cuesta-Porta V, Cooke-Mcewen C, Stone GN. 2021. Three new Nearctic genera of oak cynipid gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini): Burnettweldia Pujade-Villar, Melika & Nicholls, Nichollsiella Melika, Pujade-Villar & Stone, Disholandricus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Nicholls and re-establishment of the genus Paracraspis Weld. Zootaxa 4993(1): 1–81. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4993.1.1

Pujade-Villar, J. & Rodriguez, P. 2015. Primera cita del género Melikaiella (Hym.: Cynipidae) para Colombia y descripción de una especie nueva. Orsis 29. 193. 10.5565/rev/orsis.23.

Pujade-Villar, J., Cibrián-Tovar, D., Cibrián-Llanderal, V. D., Equihua-Martínez, A., Estrada-Venegas, E. G., Serrano-Muñoz, M. and Lomeli-Flores, J. R. 2014. A new genus of oak gallwasp, Melikaiella Pujade-Villar (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), from the Nearctic region. Dugesiana 21: 1-29.

Pujade-Villar, J., Kang, M., Bae, J., Wang, Y.-P., Guo, R. & Jung, S. 2020. Additional records to the Korean Cynipini: subspecies description, new combinations and checklist (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 23: 1208–1221.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2020.08.012

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

Wang Q, Wang X-D & Zhu D-H. 2021. A new species of Plagiotrochus from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) galling on Quercus glauce (Fagaceae). Zootaxa, 4995(2): 389–395. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4995.2.12

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Photographs © Qing Wang (Central South University of Forestry & Technology Hunan).


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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