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Diplolepis ningdaensis Zhang

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family: Diplolepididae; Subfamily: Diplolepidinae; Genus: Diplolepis)

Diplolepis ningdaensis Zhang, 2026.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

Distribution China.
Biology Gall inducer on Rosa multiflora Thunb.

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

Fang, Z., Hu, W., Mccormack, K., Pos, D.D., Tang, C.-T., Zhu, Y., Mao, K., Stone, G.N. & Zhang, Y.M. 2025. New species of rose gall wasp Diplolepis Geoffroy, 1762 (Hymenoptera: Diplolepididae) and its parasitoid Orthopelma Taschenberg, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) on a rare endemic rose species in Sichuan, China. Zootaxa, 5706 (2), 231–246. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5706.2.5

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

Zhang, C.-X. 2026. A new species of Diplolepis Geoffroy, 1762 (Hymenoptera: Diplolepididae) inducing galls on Rosa multiflora from Eastern China. Zootax 5849: 131–140. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5849.1.7

Credits

Photographs © Chuan-Xi Zhang.


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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