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Buffingtonella buffingtoni Nastasi

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

Buffingtonella buffingtoni Nastasi, 2026. Holotype female in MEM (Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA).DNA voucher code BUFF1.Type locality: USA, Mississippi, Oktibbeha Co., Starkville; collected 1981-07- 19; W. H. Cross leg.; collected via white pan at light trap.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

Holotype female. A: Lateral habitus. B: Head and proximal antennae, anterior view. C: Mesosoma, dorsal view. D: Propodeum; pca = propodeal carina. E: Metasoma, dorsolateral view; fmt = first metasomal tergite.

Distribution USA (Mississippi).
Biology Unknown, but possibly associated with a cecidomyiid gall midge (Nastasi, 2026).

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

Lobato-Vila, I., Pujade-Vilar, J. 2019. Revision of world Ceroptresini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with the description of a new genus and five new species. Zootaxa. 4685: 1–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4685.1.1

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

Nastasi, L.F. 2026. Description of the second known species of Buffingtonella Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Ceroptresini) and a possible host association for the genus. Zootaxa, 5810 (2), 395–400. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5810.2.11 .

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

Credits

Photographs © Louis Nastasi (Department of Biology, University of Iowa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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