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Issue: Vol. 4999 No. 5: 14 July 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.5.4
Page range: 456-468
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A new genus of Nearctic oak gall wasp, Grahamstoneia Melika & Nicholls, gen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

Plant Health Diagnostic National Reference Laboratory, National Food Chain Safety Office, Budaörsi str. 141-145, Budapest 1118, Hungary
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, Scotland, U.K. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Clunies Ross Street, Acton, ACT 2601 Australia.
Protobalanus oaks California Arizona bud gall sequencing Hymenoptera

Abstract

A new genus, Grahamstoneia Melika & Nicholls, gen. nov., with one new species, G. humboldti Melika & Nicholls, sp. nov., asexual generation, is described. This new taxon occurs in the south-western Nearctic, inducing galls on two species within Quercus section Protobalanus (Q. vacciniifolia Kellogg and Q. chrysolepis Liebm.), an ecology and distribution shared with the closely related genus Heteroecus Kinsey. Descriptions, diagnoses, biology, and host associations for the new genus and species are given. The new taxon is supported by morphological and molecular data.

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