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Atrusca simulatrix Kinsey

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

Cynips dugesi variety simulatrix Kinsey 1930: 280,. Holotype in New York (AMNH). Type locality: Hillsboro N.M. Gall 12.26.19, Q. grisea, Kinsey coll.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

Distribution USA (AZ, NM).
Biology The asexual generation is only known to induce leaf galls on Q. arizonica, Q. gambelii, Q. grisea, Q. oblongifolia, Q. sinuata (= Q. undulata). Galls mature in late autumn; adults emerge in Janury–February next year (Cuesta-Porta et al., 2025).

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, Melika G, Ferrer-Suay M, Vera-Ortiz A, Pujade-Villar J. 2025. Review of the Nearctic and Neotropical genus Atrusca Kinsey, 1930 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini). Zootaxa 5617 (1): 001–195. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5617.1.1

Kinsey, A.C. 1920. New Species and Synonymy of American Cynipidæ. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 42, 293–317, pls. 20–27.

Kinsey, A.C. 1930. The gall wasp genus Cynips. A study in the origin of species. Indiana University Studies, 16 (84–86), 1–577.

Kinsey, A.C. 1936. The origin of higher categories in Cynips. Indiana University Publications, Science Series 4 (Entomological Series, 10), 1–334.

Kinsey, A.C. 1938. New Mexican gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) IV. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 47, 261–280.

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

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

Credits

Photographs © Victor Cuesta-Porta.


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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