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Ceroptres Hartig

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

Ceroptres Hartig, 1840.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys
 

Ceroptres anansii Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres anzui Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres bruti Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres catesbaei Ashmead, 1885

Ceroptres cerri Mayr, 1873

Ceroptres citriformis Ashmead

Ceroptres clavicornis Hartig, 1840

Ceroptres confertus (McCracken & Egbert, 1922)

Ceroptres cornigera Melika & Buss, 2002

Ceroptres curupira Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres daleki Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres dandoi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres demerzelae Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres ensiger (Walsh, 1864)

Ceroptres frondosae Ashmead, 1896

Ceroptres iktomii Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres inermis (Walsh)

Ceroptres jabbai Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres japonicus Ashmead

Ceroptres jarethi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres junquerasi Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019

Ceroptres kovalevi Belizin

Ceroptres lanigerae Ashmead, 1885

Ceroptres lenis Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019

Ceroptres lokii Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres lupini Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres mallowi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres masudai Abe

Ceroptres mexicanus Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019

Ceroptres minutissimi Ashmead, 1885

Ceroptres montensis Weld, 1957

Ceroptres niger Fullaway

Ceroptres nigricus Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019

Ceroptres obtusilobae Ashmead

Ceroptres petiolicola (Osten-Sacken, 1861)

Ceroptres pisum (Osten-Sacken, 1861)

Ceroptres pomiformis Ashmead

Ceroptres promethei Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres quadratifacies Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019

Ceroptres quercusarbos (Fitch)

Ceroptres quercusficus (Fitch)

Ceroptres quercusobtusilobae (Karsch, 1880)

Ceroptres quercustuber (Fitch)

Ceroptres quereicola (Shinji)

Ceroptres rufiventris Ashmead, 1896

Ceroptres sandiegoae Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres selinae Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres snellingi Lyon, 1996

Ceroptres soloi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres songae Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres succinipedis Ashmead

Ceroptres swiperi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres thrymi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres tikoloshei Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres virentis Ashmead

Ceroptres zorroi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024

Ceroptres species
Distribution Holarctic region.
Biology Inquilines of Cynipini and Cecidomyiidae on oaks (Nastasi et al. 2024, Ronquist et al. 2015).

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 20:1–38.

Nastasi LF, Smith CN, Davis CK, Ward AKG, Brown G, Zhang YM, Rollins S, Friesen C, Tribull CM, Forbes AA, Deans AR. 2024. One must imagine Sisyphus happy: Integrative taxonomic characterization of 22 new Ceroptres species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Ceroptresini). Zootaxa 5508 (1): 1–63 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5508.1.1

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

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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