Synergus Hartig

Synergus acsi Melika & Pujade-Villar

Synergus agrifoliae Ashmead

Synergus apicalis Hartig

Synergus brevicornis Ashmead, 1896

Synergus changtitangi

Synergus clandestinus Eady, 1952

Synergus crassicornis (Curtis, 1838)

Synergus gifuensis Ashmead, 1904

Synergus grahami Lobato-Vila and Pujade-Villar, 2019

Synergus hakonensis Ashmead, 1904

Synergus incrassatus Hartig, 1840

Synergus indigens Faust, 1895

Synergus incisus Gillete, 1896

Synergus iwatensis Shinji, 1941

Synergus jezoensis Uchida & Sakagami, 1948

Synergus kawakamii

Synergus lignicola (Osten-Sacken, 1862)

Synergus mexicanus Gillette, 1896

Synergus mizunarae Shinji, 1940

Synergus shorthousei Lobato-Vila and Pujade-Villar, 2019

Synergus tenebrosus Lobato-Vila and Pujade-Villar, 2019

Synergus xialongmeni Melika, Acs & Bechtold, 2004

more to follow

Distribution

Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic regions.

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)