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Xestophanes Förster

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

Xestophanes Förster, 1869.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

  Xestophanes brevitarsis (Thomson, 1877)
  Xestophanes tormentillae Schlechtendal, 1880
 

Xestophanes caspiana Liu, 2004 (Azerbaijan)

  Xestophanes laevigatus (Schenck, 1863)
  Xestophanes potentillae (Retzius, 1773)
  Xestophanes szepligetti Balás, 1941
Distribution Nearctic, 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.

Pang Y, Liu Z, Su C-Y, Zhu D-H. 2020. A new species of Periclistus Foerster, 1869 from China and review of the tribe Diastrophini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae). ZooKeys 964: 109-126. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.964.47441.

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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