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Disholcaspis Dalla Torre & Kieffer

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

Holcaspis Mayr 1881: 35. Type species: Callaspidia quercus-globulus Fitch, 1858. Designated by Ashmead (1903). Preoccupied, non Chaudoir (1865), Coleoptera.
Disholcaspis Dalla Torre & Kieffer, 1910: 371, new name for Holcaspis Mayr
.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

 

Disholcaspis bisethiae Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey, 2011 (Panama)
Disholcaspis brasoae Cuesta-Porta, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis brevinota Weld, 1921 (USA)
Disholcaspis callosa Pujade-Villar, Kinsey† & Cuesta-Porta, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis canescens (Bassett, 1890) (USA)
Disholcaspis carpenteri Pujade-Villar, Cuesta-Porta & Melika, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis cinerosa (Bassett, 1881) (Mexico)
Disholcaspis colorado (Gillette, 1893) (USA)
Disholcaspis cordifoliae Cuesta-Porta, Pujade-Villar & Kinsey†, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis costaricensis Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2011 (Costa Rica)
Disholcaspis crystalae Pujade-Villar, 2018 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis cummingi Pujade-Villar, Melika & Cuesta-Porta, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis edura Weld, 1957 (USA)
Disholcaspis eldoradensis (Beutenmüller, 1909) (Canada & USA)
Disholcaspis erugomamma Cooke-McEwen, 2020 (USA)
Disholcaspis familiaris Cuesta-Porta, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis fungiformis Kinsey, 1920 (USA)
Disholcaspis globosa Weld, 1921 (USA)
Disholcaspis hermesi Cuesta-Porta, Pujade-Villar & Melika, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis heynei Kieffer, 1910 (USA)
Disholcaspis insulana Kinsey, 1938 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis lacuna Weld, 1921 (USA)
Disholcaspis laetae Kinsey, 1937 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis largior Kinsey, 1938 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis mamillana Weld, 1957 (USA)
Disholcaspis mellifica Weld, 1957 (USA)
Disholcaspis mexicana (Beutenmüller, 1911) (Mexico)
Disholcaspis nayeliae Cuesta-Porta, Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis pattersoni Kinsey, 1922 (USA)
Disholcaspis pedunculiodes Weld, 1926 (USA)
Disholcaspis perniciosa (Bassett, 1890) (USA)
Disholcaspis persimilis (Ashmead, 1896) (USA)
Disholcaspis potosina Kinsey, 1937 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis prehensa Weld, 1957 (USA)
Disholcaspis pruniformis Kinsey, 1920 (USA)
Disholcaspis pulla Kinsey, 1937 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis punicea Pujade-Villar, Kinsey† & Cuesta-Porta, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis purlans Kinsey, 1937 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis purpurea Kinsey, 1937 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis puta Kinsey†, Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis quercusglobulus (Fitch, 1859) (Canada & USA)
Disholcaspis quercusmamma (Walsh & Riley, 1869) (Canada & USA)
Disholcaspis quercusomnivora (Ashmead, 1885) (USA)
Disholcaspis quercusvirens (Ashmead, 1881) (USA)
Disholcaspis raptor Pujade-Villar, Kinsey † & Cuesta-Porta, 2024 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis regina Kinsey, 1937 (Mexico)
Disholcaspis rubens (Gillette, 1893) (USA)
Disholcaspis sileri (Bassett, 1890) (USA)
Disholcaspis simulata Kinsey, 1922 (Canada & USA)
Disholcaspis spissa Weld, 1957 (USA)
Disholcaspis spongiosa Weld, 1952 (USA)
Disholcaspis terrestris Weld, 1921 (USA)
Disholcaspis unicolor Kinsey, 1920 (Mexico)

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, Cooke-Mcewen C, Melika G, Romerorangel S, Equihua-Martínez A, Estrada-Venegas EG, Clarktapia R, Serrano-Muñoz M, Chagoyán-García C, Pujade-Villar J. 2024. Review of the Mexican species of Disholcaspis Dalla Torre & Kieffer with the description of eleven new species. Zootaxa 5498: 1-100. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5498.1.1

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

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