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Phanacis Förster

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

Phanacis Förster 1860. Type species: 

  30 species in total - list incomplete
 

Phanacis carthami Gussakovskij

Phanacis caulicola (Hedicke)

Phanacis centaureae Förster

Phanacis cereipes Dyakontshuk

Phanacis cichorii (Kieffer)

Phanacis comosae Nieves-Aldrey

Phanacis compactus Dyakontshuk

Phanacis cousiniae Dyakontshuk

Phanacis crassinervis

Phanacis dobrogicus Şchiopu, Tataroǧlu & Katilmiş, 2024 (Romania)

Phanacis eryngi Dyakonchuk

Phanacis eugeniae (Dyakonchuk)

Phanacis gracilis Dyakontshuk

Phanacis helminthiae (Stefani)

Phanacis heraclei (Hedicke)

  Phanacis heteropappi Dyakontshuk
 

Phanacis hypochoeridis (Kieffer, 1887) (introduced to South Africa)

  Phanacis kiefferi (Cotte, 1915)

Phanacis neserorum Melika & Prinsloo, 2007

  Phanacis taraxaci (Ashmead, 1897) (USA)
Phanacis species

References

Melika, G. & Prinsloo, G.L. 2007. Phanacis neserorum sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aylacini): first record of a phytophagous Afrotropical cynipoid gall wasp. African Entomology 15: 185-191.

Şchiopu I, Tataroǧlu M & Katilmiş Y. 2024. New species of gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aulacideini and Phanacidini) inducing galls on plants of the genera Sonchus and Crepis (Asteraceae) in Romania (Dobrogea Province) and notes on their parasitoids. Zootaxa 5471: 33-55. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5471.1.2

van Noort, S, Buffington ML & Forshage, M. 2015. Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). ZooKeys 493: 1-176. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.493.6353

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) and Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum of Natural History) both played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages.


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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