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Andricus mairei (Kieffer) 

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

Parandricus mairei Kieffer, 1906:103. HOLOTYPE

Andricus mairei (Kieffer) Melika & Abrahamson, 2001: 160.
Andricus deqingis Wang, Gui, Chen, 2013: 976. Synonymy by Pujade-Villar et al., 2020.
Andricus flavus Pujade-Villar, Wang, Guo & Chen, 2014: 418. Synonymy by Pujade-Villar et al., 2020.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

Distribution China: Hunan, Guizhou and Zhejiang Provinces (Kieffer 1906, Yang et al. 2012, Wang et al.
2013, Pujade-Villar et al. 2014).
Biology Gall inducer on Quercus serrata (= Q. glandulifera var. brevipetiolata Nakai (section Quercus of Quercus). The host, Q. fabri Hance mentioned in Pujade-Villar et al. (2014) and reproduced in Pénzes et al. (2018) is incorrect.

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

Mayr, G. 1881. Die genera der gallenbewohnenden Cynipiden. Jahresberichte der Rossauer Communal Oberrealschule im I. Bezirke20:138.

Pujade-Villar J, Wang Y, Guo R, Cuesta-Porta V, Arnedo MA & Melika G. 2020. Current status of Andricus mairei (Kieffer), with synonymization of two species from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zootaxa 4808 (3): 507 –525. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4808.3.6

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 © Juli Pujade-Villar (Centres Científics i Tecnològics de la Universitat de Barcelona).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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