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Callirhytis ceropteroides Bassett. Design. G. Melika 1900

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Callirhytis ceropteroides BASSETT, 1900

Callirhytis ceropteroides BASSETT 1900: 324. Female, gall.

Type material examined – Lectotype female (here designated) “ Bassettia ceropteroides (Bass) ”, “Beut. Coll., rec’d 1935”, “ Callirhytis ceropteroides Bass., W. B. ”, red “Type”, “Waterbury, Ct., H. F. Bassett, Coll.”, and a red label was added “ LECTOTYPE. Callirhytis ceropteroides Bassett. Design. G. Melika 998”; one paralectotype female (here designated) “ Callirhytis ceropteroides B., 1555 I. ”, red “Type”, “Ct.”, and a red label was added “ PARALECTOTYPE. Callirhytis ceropteroides Bassett. Design. G. Melika 998”. In the USNM.

Other material examined – 4 females with “ Eumayria ceropteroides (Bass) det. Weld, 1924.”, “Collection, C. F. Baker ”, “Loan 2553”, “ Coll. C. F. Baker ”, “Cana 2393”, “ Coll. C. F. Baker ”, “Cana 2416.”, “ Coll. C. F. Baker,” “Louni 2553.”, and “ Coll. C. F. Baker ”, “Louni 2264.”; and 2 females with “ Bassettia ceropteroides (Bass), det. Weld, 1943.”, “Collection ASHMEAD ”, “ Ft. Pendelton. 7.7, W. Va ”. In the USNM.

Biology – Only the asexual generation is known which induces stem galls on Q. velutina LAM. Adults emerge in July (BASSETT 1900).

Distribution – USA: Connecticut (Crescent Beach, Branford; Waterbury) (BASSETT 1900), West Virginia (Ft. Pendelton).

Notes

Published as part of Melika, G & Abrahamson, WG, 2007, Review Of The Nearctic Gallwasp Species Of The Genus Bassettia Ashmead, 1887, With Description Of New Species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), pp. 131-148 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53 (2) on page 145, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12585553

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Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Scientific name authorship
Bassett. Design. G. Melika
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Cynipidae
Genus
Callirhytis
Species
ceropteroides
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Callirhytis ceropteroides G., 1900 sec. Melika & Abrahamson, 2007

References

  • BASSETT, H. F. (1900) New species of North American Cynipidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 26: 310 - 336.