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Diastrophus Hartig

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

Diastrophus Hartig, 1840

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

 

Diastrophus austrior Kinsey, 1922 (USA)

Diastrophus bassettii Beutenmüller, 1892 (USA)

Diastrophus colombianus Nieves-Aldrey, 2013

Diastrophus cuscutaeformis Osten Sacken, 1863 (Canada, USA)

Diastrophus fragariae Beutenmuller, 1915 (Canada, USA)

Diastrophus fusiformans Ashmead, 1890 (USA)

Diastrophus japonicus Wachi et al, 2013

Diastrophus kinkaidii Gillette, 1893

 

Diastrophus mayri Reinhard, 1876

Diastrophus nebulosus (Osten Sacken, 1861) (Canada, USA)

Diastrophus niger Bassett, 1900 (USA)

Diastrophus piceus Provancher, 1886 (Canada)

iastrophus potentillae Bassett, 1864

Diastrophus radicum Bassett, 1870 (USA)

  Diastrophus renai Davis & Nastasi, 2024
 

iastrophus rubi (Bouché, 1834)

Diastrophus smilacis Ashmead, 1896 (USA)

Diastrophus tumefactus Kinsey, 1920 (Canada)

Diastrophus turgidus Bassett, 1870 (Canada, USA)

 

Diastrophus wushei Davis & Nastasi 2024

  21 species NA, PA, NT
Distribution Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic regions.
Biology Associated with Rosaceae, as gall-inducers (Buffington et al. 2020).

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

Davis, CK, Nastasi LF, Deans AR. 2024. Description of two new species of Diastrophus Hartig, 1840 from Taiwan, Diastrophus renai and D. wushei (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Diastrophini). Zootaxa 5541 (3): 367–374. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.7

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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Photographs © Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS).


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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