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Diplolepis Geoffroy

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

Diplolepis Geoffroy, 1762.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

 

Diplolepis abei Pujade-Villar & Wang (China)

 

Diplolepis acraspiformis Weld

Diplolepis aggregata Weld

Diplolepis albitarsis Bouché

Diplolepis amphora Weld

Diplolepis aphidum Gravenhorst

Diplolepis arefacta (Gillette)

Diplolepis ashmeadi (Beutenmüller)

Diplolepis bassetti (Beutenmüller)

Diplolepis bicolor (Harris, 1841)
 

Diplolepis caepula Weld

Diplolepis californica (Beutenmüller)

Diplolepis capillata Weld

Diplolepis capronae Weld

Diplolepis cava Weld

Diplolepis dichlocera (Harris)

 

Diplolepis eglanteriae (Hartig)

Diplolepis flaviabdomenis Wang, Liu & Chen (China)

Diplolepis fructuum (Rübsaamen)

Diplolepis fusiformans (Ashmead)

Diplolepis hunanensis Wang, Rui, Liu & Chen (China)

Diplolepis japonica Walker (Japan, Korea)

Diplolepis lens Weld (USA)

Diplolepis mayri (Schlechtendal)

Diplolepis minoriabdomenis Wang, Rui, Liu & Chen (China)

Diplolepis nervosa (Curtis)

Diplolepis nodulosa (Beutenmüller)

Diplolepis oregonensis (Beutenmüller)

Diplolepis polita (Ashmead)

Diplolepis rosae (Linnaeus, 1758)
 

Diplolepis rosaefolii (Cockerell)

Diplolepis spinosissimae (Giraud)

Diplolepis tuberculatrix (Cockerell)

Diplolepis valtonyci Zhu, Wang & Pujade-Villar, 2021
  46 species in total

Distribution

Nearctic and Palaearctic regions. Non-native species could be moved with horticultural products (Buffington et al. 2020).

Biology

Gall inducers on Rosa (Rosaceae) (Buffington et al. 2020).

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

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

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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