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Andricus Hartig

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

Andricus Hartig, 1840.

Parandricus Kieffer, 1906.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

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Andricus ahmeti Melika, Mutun & Dinç, 2014

Andricus amenti Giraud, 1859

Andricus anatolicus Melika, Mutun & Dinç, 2014

Andricus aries (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus askewi Melika & Stone, 2001

Andricus assarehi Melika & Sadeghi, 2008

Andricus atkinsonae

Andricus atrimentus (striped volcano gall wasp)

Andricus bakkeri (Lyon, 1984)

ndricus brunneus (clustered gall wasp)

Andricus bulgaricus Vassileva-Samnalieva, 1977

Andricus callidoma (Hartig, 1841)

Andricus burnetti

Andricus caputmedusae (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus cecconii (Kieffer, 1901)

Andricus chinquapin (Fitch) (small oak spindle gall wasp)

Andricus chodjaii Melika, 2008

Andricus chrysolepidicola (irregular spindle gall wasp)

Andricus confertus (convoluted gall wasp)

Andricus conglomeratus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus conificus (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus coortus (club gall wasp)

Andricus coquilletti (little oak apple gall wasp)

Andricus coriariformis

Andricus coriarius (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus coronatus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus corruptrix (Schlechtendal, 1870)

Andricus crispator (Tschek, 1871)

Andricus crystallinus (Bassett, 1900) (crystalline gall wasp)

Andricus csokai

Andricus curtisii (Müller, 1870)

Andricus curvator (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus cylindratum (Kinsey, 1937)

Andricus dentimitratus (Rejtö, 1887)

Andricus dimorphus (clustered midrib gall wasp)

Andricus elodeoides Liu & Pang, 2022 (China)
Andricus fecundatrix (Hartig, 1840)
Andricus formosanus Tang & Melika, 2009 (China)
Andricus flavohirtus (Beutenmüller, 1913)
Andricus foliaformis
Andricus forni Pujade-Villar & Nicholls, 2020 (China)

Andricus fullawayi (Beutenmüller, 1913)

Andricus galeatus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus gallaetinctoriae (Olivier, 1791)

Andricus gallaeurnaeformis (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1832)

Andricus gigas (Kinsey, 1922) (saucer gall wasp)

Andricus glandulae (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus glutinosus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus grossulariae (Giraud, 1859)

Andricus hastata (Kinsey, 1937)

Andricus hungaricus (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus hystrix Trotter, 1899

Andricus ignotus

Andricus incertus

Andricus infectorius (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus inflator (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus insana (Westwood, 1837)

Andricus istvani

Andricus kashiwaphilus Abe, 1998 (China)

Andricus kingi (Bassett, 1900) (red cone gall wasp)

Andricus kollari (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus lasius (hairy gall wasp)

Andricus legitimus Wiebes-Rijks, 1980

Andricus libani

Andricus lignicolus (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus lucidus (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus mairei (Kieffer, 1906) (China)
Andricus malpighii (Adler, 1881)
Andricus mammadovi Azmaz & Katılmış, 2021
Andricus megatruncicolus
Andricus melikai (Pujade-Villar & Kwast)
Andricus mitratus (Mayr, 1870)
Andricus moreae (Graeffe, 1905)
Andricus morula (Shachar et al., 2017)
Andricus mukaigawae Mukaigawa, 1913 (China)
Andricus niger

Andricus nigricens

Andricus opertus (Weld, 1926) (fimbriate gall wasp)

Andricus panteli (Kieffer, 1896)

Andricus parmula (Bassett, 1900) (disc gall wasp)

Andricus paradoxus (Radoskovsky, 1866)

Andricus pattersonae (plate gall wasp)

Andricus pattoni

Andricus pedicellatus (hair stalk gall wasp)

Andricus perlentus (Kinsey, 1937)

Andricus polycerus (Girauld, 1859)

Andricus pseudoaries

Andricus pseudocurvator Tang & Melika, 2011 (China)
Andricus pseudomultiplicatus Sottile, Nicholls & Cerasa, 2025

Andricus pujadevillari

Andricus quadrilineatus (Hartig, 1840)

Andricus quercuscalicis (Burgsdorf, 1783) (knopper gall wasp)

Andricus quercuscalifornicus (Bassett, 1881) (California gall wasp)

Andricus quercusflocci (Walsh, 1864)

Andricus quercusfoliatus (Ashmead, 1881) (leafy oak gall wasp)

Andricus quercuslanigera (wool-bearing gall wasp)

Andricus quercusostensackenii

Andricus quercuspetiolicola (oak petiole gall wasp)

Andricus quercusradicis (Fabricius, 1798)

Andricus quercusramuli (Linnaeus, 1761)

Andricus quercussingularis (small oak apple gall wasp)

Andricus quercustozae (Bosc, 1792)

Andricus quercusstrobilanus

Andricus rhyzomae (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus sadeghii

Andricus schoenroggei

Andricus serricornis (Kinsey, 1922)

Andricus sessilum

Andricus sieboldi (Hartig, 1843)

Andricus solitarius (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1832)

Andricus songshui Tang & Melika, 2011 (China)

Andricus splendens

Andricus stefanii (Kieffer, 1897)

Andricus stellaris (sunburst gall wasp)

Andricus stellulus (Burnett, 1974) (stellar gall wasp)

Andricus stonei

Andricus sulfureus

Andricus targionii Kieffer, 1903 (China)
Andricus testaceipes (Hartig, 1840)
Andricus theophrastea (Trotter, 1866)
Andricus tomentosa (Trotter, 1901)
Andricus truncicolus (Girauld, 1859)
Andricus vacciniifoliae (oak apple wasp)
Andricus wuhanensis Ide, Abe, Su & Zhu, 2018 (China)
Andricus wugangensis Zeng, Liu, & Zhu, 2024 (China)
Andricus xishuangbannaus Melika & Tang, 2012 (China)

There are ca 375 species in total, but taxonomy is uncertain and far from stable with many more or less dubious taxa (Buffington et al 2020).

Distribution Holarctic, Oriental, Nearctic, 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

Duan Y-B, Liu L, Zhu D-H, Zeng Y & Liu Z. 2024.Description of a new species of Andricus Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from China. Zootaxa 5474 (2): 160–172. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.2.4

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

Pujade-Villar J, Wang Y, Guo R, Cuesta-Porta V, Arnedo MA & Melika G. 2020. Current status of Andricus mairei (Kieffer), with synonymization of two species from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zootaxa 4808 (3): 507 –525. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4808.3.6

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

Sottile S, Nicholls JA, Stone GN & Cerasa G. 2025. An integrative taxonomic approach to describe Andricus pseudomultiplicatus sp. nov. and establish new synonymies in Andricus Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). Zootaxa 5609 (4): 451–478. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.1

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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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