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Andricus pseudomultiplicatus Sottile, Nicholls & Cerasa 

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

Andricus pseudomultiplicatus Sottile, Nicholls & Cerasa, 2025. HOLOTYPE 1♂ & 1♀ (deposited in MSNG), card-mounted. ITALY: Emilia-Romagna, Vernasca (PC), ex galls on Quercus cerris, 20.IV.2024, 44.790164, 9.786095, 440 m, emerged 8.V.2024 (samples N.5280, N.5300), S. Sottile leg.“.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

Distribution Western Palaearctic region: Hungary, Italy.
Biology Gall inducer on Quercus cerris.

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.

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

Sottile S, Nicholls JA, Stone GN & Cerasa G. 2025. An integrative taxonomic approach to describe Andricus pseudomultiplicatus sp. nov. and establish new synonymies in Andricus Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). Zootaxa 5609 (4): 451–478. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.1

Credits

Photographs © Salvatore Sottile (Museo Civico di Lentate Sul Seveso).


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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