Amphibolips - WaspWeb

	Amphibolips acuminatus Ashmead, 1896 Amphibolips aliciae Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey, 2010 Amphibolips arbensis Mehes, 1953 Amphibolips arcuatus (Kieffer) Amphibolips bassae Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar, 2020 Amphibolips bromus Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta, 2020 Amphibolips castroviejoi Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey, 2010 Amphibolips cibriani Pujade-Villar, 2018 Amphibolips confluenta Amphibolips cookii Gillette, 1888 Amphibolips dampfi Kinsey, 1937 Amphibolips durangensis Nieves-Aldrey & Maldonado, 2012 Amphibolips ellipsoidalis Weld Amphibolips fusus Kinsey, 1937 Amphibolips gainesi Bassett, 1900 Amphibolips globulus Beutenmüller Amphibolips globus Weld
	Amphibolips hidalgoensis Pujade-Villar & Melika, 2011
	Amphibolips jaliscensis Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual, 2012 Amphibolips kinseyi Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar, 2020 Amphibolips melanocera Ashmead Amphibolips michoacaensis Nieves-Aldrey & Maldonado, 2012 Amphibolips montana Beutenmüller Amphibolips murata Weld, 1957 Amphibolips nassa Kinsey, 1937 Amphibolips nevadensis Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual, 2012 Amphibolips nigra Beutenmüller Amphibolips nubilipennis Amphibolips oaxacae Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual, 2012 Amphibolips palmeri Basset, 1890 Amphibolips quercusinanis Amphibolips quercusjuglans (Osten Sacken, 1862) Amphibolips quercuspomiformis (Bassett, 1881) Amphibolips quercusspongifica Amphibolips racemaria Ashmead Amphibolips rulli Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta, 2020 Amphibolips salicifoliae Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey, 2010 Amphibolips spinosa Ashmead, 1887 Amphibolips tarasco Nieves-Aldrey & Pascual, 2012 Amphibolips tinctoriae Ashmead Amphibolips trizonata Ashmead, 1897 Amphibolips turulli Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta, 2020 Amphibolips zacatecaensis Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2011
	There are 53 species of Amphibolips in total (Buffington et al 2020).

Distribution	Neartic and Neotropical regions.
Biology	Gall inducers on species of Quercus.
References	Bassett, H. F. 1881. New Species of Cynipidae. The Canadian Entomologist. 13: 51–53. doi:10.4039/Ent1351-3 . 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 Cuesta-Porta V, Equihua-Martínez A, Estrada-Venegas EG, Cibrian-Tovar D, Barrera-Ruiz UM, Silva SO, Sánchez IVL, Melika G, Pujade-Villar J. 2020. Revision of the Amphibolips species of the ‘nassa’ complex from Mexico and central America (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zootaxa 4877: 1-50. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4877.1.1 Mayr, G. 1881. Die genera der gallenbewohnenden Cynipiden. Jahresberichte der Rossauer Communal Oberrealschule im I. Bezirke 20:1–38. 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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