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Aulacidea Walsh

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

Aulacidea Ashmead, 1897;

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

 

Aulacidea abdita Kinsey, 1920

Aulacidea abdominalis (Thomson, 1877)

Aulacidea acroptilonica Tyurebaev, 1972

Aulacidea ambrosiaecola (Ashmead, 1896)

Aulacidea andrei (Kieffer, 1900)

 

Aulacidea andriescui Şchiopu, Tataroǧlu & Katilmiş, 2024 (Romania)

 

Aulacidea annulata Kinsey, 1920

Aulacidea arnicae Hoffmeyer, 1930

Aulacidea ascanica Diakontschuk, 1894

Aulacidea brevicornis Diakontschuk, 1981

Aulacidea diakontschukae Melika & Klymenko, 2005

Aulacidea discolor Diakontschuk, 1988

Aulacidea follioti Barbotin, 1972

Aulacidea freesei Nieves-Aldrey, 1995

Aulacidea harringtoni (Ashmead, 1887)

Aulacidea hei Wang, Liu, & Chen, 2012

Aulacidea hieracii Linnaeus, 1758

Aulacidea idoneus (Belizin, 1973)

Aulacidea irani Melika & Gharaei, 2006

Aulacidea koeiana Melika, Tavakoli, & Stone, 2022

Aulacidea koelpiniae Dyakontshuk, 1988

Aulacidea laurae Nieves-Aldrey, 1992

Aulacidea lorestanica Melika, Tavakoli, & Stone, 2022

 

  Aulacidea manchuria Nastasi, 2024 (China)
 

Aulacidea martae Nieves-Aldrey, 2004

Aulacidea nabali (Brodie, 1892)

Aulacidea nibletti Quinlan & Askew, 1969

Aulacidea parvula Diakontshuk, 1984

Aulacidea phlomica Belizin,1959

Aulacidea pilarae Nieves-Aldrey, 2012

Aulacidea pilosellae (Kieffer, 1901)

Aulacidea piroziae Melika, Stone, & Pujade-Villar, 2022

Aulacidea podagrae (Bassett 1890)

Aulacidea pumila (Giraud, 1859)

Aulacidea rubi Diakontshuk, 2003

 

Aulacidea scorzonerae (Giraud, 1859)

Aulacidea serratulae Diakontshuk, 1984

Aulacidea subterminalis Niblett, 1946

 

Aulacidea taurica (Belizin, 1954)

Aulacidea tavakolii Melika, 2008

Aulacidea tobiasi Melika, 2004

 

Aulacidea tragopogonis (Thomson, 1877)

Aulacidea tragopogonis celata Kierych

Aulacidea tumida (Bassett, 1890)

  Aulacidea turcica Azmaz & Katılmış, 2020 (Türkiye)
 

Aulacidea turguti Azmaz & Katilmiş, 2021 (Türkiye)

Distribution Nearctic and Palaearctic regions. Introduced to Australasian region (New Zealand).
Biology Gall inducers on various herbaceous plants (Ronquist et al., 2015). Aulacidea subterminalis has been used in the biological control of invasive weeds in North America (APHIS, 2011) and New Zealand (Klöppel et al., 2003; Syrett et al., 2001).
Links

Landcare Research New Zealand fact sheet

USDA fact sheet

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

Klöppel M, Smith L, Syrett P. 2003. Predicting the impact of the biocontrol agent Aulacidea subterminalis (Cynipidae) on growth of Hieracium pilosella (Asteraceae) under differing environmental conditions in New Zealand. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 13: 207-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/0958315021000073478

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

Syrett, P., L. Smith, G. Grosskopf, and C. Meurk. 2001. Predicting the likely success of biocontrol of hawkweeds in New Zealand. Plant Prot. Quar. 16: 172–176.

Tataroğlu, M & Katılmış, Y. 2020. A new species of herb gall wasp (Cynipidae, Aulacideini, Aulacidea) from Turkey. Zootaxa. 4747. 378-390. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4747.2.9

Tataroğlu, M & Katılmış, Y. 2024. Gall wasp (Cynipoidea: Cynipidae and Diplolepididae) fauna of the Eastern Black Sea Region (Türkiye). Zootaxa. 5468. 112-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5468.1.4

Ward, D. 2014. Overview and key to the New Zealand Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa. 3878. 563-579. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3878.6.4 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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