Synergus lignicola (Osten-Sacken)

Distribution

Biology

Inquilines of gall-inducing Cynipini on Fagaceae, or primary gall formers. In some cases, inquilinism reaches a degree where gall inducers do not survive and hatch (Buffington et al. 2020).

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

Mayr, G. 1881. Die genera der gallenbewohnenden Cynipiden. Jahresberichte der Rossauer Communal Oberrealschule im I. Bezirke 20:1–38.

Credits

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