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Issue: Vol. 5403 No. 3: 22 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5403.3.6
Page range: 369-376
Abstract views: 169
PDF downloaded: 9

Description of the first species of gall wasp (Hym., Cynipidae: Cynipini) on Quercus grahamii (Fagaceae)

Universitat de Barcelona; Facultat de Biologia; Departament de Biologia Evolutiva; Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals; Avda. Diagonal 645; 08028-Barcelona; Catalonia
Centro de Agroecología; Instituto de Ciencias; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP); Estado de Puebla; México
Herbario y Jardín Botánico; Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP); Estado de Puebla; México
Centro de Agroecología; Instituto de Ciencias; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP); Estado de Puebla; México
Coordinator; GCCO Mexico and Central America; led by The Morton Arboretum
Herbario y Jardín Botánico; Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP); Estado de Puebla; México
Plant Health Diagnostic National Reference Laboratory; National Food Chain Safety Office; Budaörsi str. 141-145; Budapest 1118; Hungary
Hymenoptera Andricus coombesi new species taxonomy morphology distribution biology Mexico

Abstract

A new species of oak gall wasp, Andricus coombesi Pujade-Villar & Pérez-Torres n. sp. from Mexico, known only from its asexual generation that induces galls on acorns of Quercus grahamii Benth., (section Lobatae) is described. Its presence causes the complete disappearance of the acorn. Diagnosis, distribution and biological data of the new species are given. Andricus coombesi Pujade-Villar & Pérez-Torres n. sp. represents the first gall wasp species mentioned from this host.

 

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