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Lithosaphonecrus Tang, Melika and Boszó

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

Lithosaphonecrus Tang, Melika and Boszó, 2013. Type species: 

 

Lithosaphonecrus dakengi Tang & Pujade-Villar, 2013 (China)

 

Lithosaphonecrus arcoverticus Liu, Zhu et Pang, 2019 (China)

 

Lithosaphonecrus decarinatus Liu, Zhu et Pang, 2019 (China)

 

Lithosaphonecrus formosanus Melika & Tang, 2013 (China)

Lithosaphonecrus mindatus Ide, Aung & Tanaka, 2020 (Myanmar)

 

Lithosaphonecrus huisuni Tang, Bozsó & Melika, 2013 (China)

 

Lithosaphonecrus puigdemonti Pujade-Villar, 2020 (China)

 

Lithosaphonecrus papuanus (Nieves-Aldrey & Butterill, 2014) (Papua New Guinea)

 

Lithosaphonecrus vietnamensis (Abe, Ide, Konishi & Ueno, 2014) (Vietnam)

 

Lithosaphonecrus yunnani Tang, Bozsó & Melika, 2013 (China)

Distribution

Australasian, Oriental region.

Biology

Inquilines of gall-inducing Cynipini on Fagaceae.

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

Hartig, T. 1843. Zweiter nachtrag zur naturgeschichte der Gallwespen. Zeitschrift fur Entomologie 4: 395 - 422.

Ide T, Mu MA, Nobuyuki T. 2020. First record of Cynipidae from Myanmar with description of a new species of Lithosaphonecrus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini). Zootaxa 4810(2): 344–350. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4810.2.7

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

Penzes, Z., Melika, G., Bozsoki, Z., Bihari, P., Miko, I., Tavakoli, M., Pudje-Villar, J., Feher, B., Fulop, D., Szabo, K., Bozso, M., Sipos, B., Somogyi, K. & Stone, G. 2009. Systematic re-appraisal of the gall-usurping wasp genus Synophrus Hartig, 1843 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini). Systematic Entomology 34: 688 - 711. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00482.x

Pujade-Villar, J., Wang, Y. & Lobato-Vila, I. 2020. Lithosaphonecrus puigdemonti sp. nov. from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Entomotaxonomia, 42 (1), 70–80.
Pujade-Villar, J., Melika, G., Ros-Farre, P., Acs, Z. & Csoka, G. 2003. Cynipid inquiline wasps of Hungary, with taxonomic notes on the Western Palaearctic fauna (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipinae, Synergini). Folia Entomologica Hungarica 64: 121 - 170.

Schwéger, S., Melika, G., Tang, C.-T., Yang, M.-M., Stone, G.N., Nicholls, J.A., Sinclair, F., Hearn, J., Bozsó, M. & Pénzes, Z. 2015. New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Saphonecrus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from the Eastern Palaearctic, with a re-appraisal of known species world-wide. Zootaxa, 4054 (1), 1–84. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4054.1.1

Shachar, E, Melika, G, Inbar, M & Dorchin, N, 2018, The oak gall wasps of Israel (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) - diversity, distribution and life history. Zootaxa 4521: 451-498. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4521.4.1
Sternlicht, M. 1968. The oak galls of Israel (Quercus calliprinos Webb, and Quercus ithaburensis Decne.). Israel Journal of Entomology 3: 17 - 57.

Yang., X.-H., Liu, Z., Pang, Y., Su, C.-Y. & Zhu, D.-H. 2019. Three new species of Synergini wasps from same galls on Lithocarpus glaber (Thunb.) in Hunan, China (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002304

Credits

Photographs © Tatsuya Ide (National Museum of Nature and Science, Ibaraki, Japan).

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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