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Synergus laeviventris

Description

Synergus laeviventris (Osten-Sacken, 1861)

Synophrus laeviventris Osten Sacken, 1861. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Phil. 1: 57. Type material: MCZ.

Synergus laeviventris: Osten-Sacken (1865). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Phil. 4: 375.

Diagnosis. See Lobato-Vila et al. (2020c: 19).

Distribution. USA: Washington D.C. (Osten-Sacken 1861; Burks 1979), Colorado, and Michigan (Gillette 1896).

Biology. Reared from galls of Amphibolips confluenta (Harris, 1841) on Q. rubra (Osten-Sacken 1861); from galls of Amphibolips quercusspongifica (Osten-Sacken, 1862), Atrusca quercuscentricola (Osten-Sacken, 1861), as well as from an unnamed gall on Q. falcata described by Osten-Sacken (1861) (Osten-Sacken 1865); and from galls of Disholcaspis rubens (Gillette, 1893) and D. quercusglobulus (Fitch, 1859) (Gillette 1896).

Remarks. The type material of Synergus laeviventris was examined and the species was redescribed and illustrated by Lobato-Vila et al. (2020c: 19).

The host plant is not mentioned neither for Amphibolips quercusspongifica, Atrusca quercuscentricola, Disholcaspis rubens nor D. quercusglobulus. However, and according to Burks (1979), A. quercusspongifica is associated with oaks of the Lobatae section (Q. coccinea, Q. marilandica, and Q. velutina); Atrusca quercuscentricola, with Q. stellata; Disholcaspis rubens, with some species of oaks from Quercus section (Q. arizonica, Q. x undulata, Q. gambelii, Q. oblongifolia, Q. rugosa, Q. turbinella, and Q. toumeyi); and D. quercusglobulus, with oaks from Quercus section (Q. alba, Q. prinoides, and ‘ Q. prinus ’).

Notes

Published as part of Lobato-Vila, Irene & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2021, The genus Synergus Hartig (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) in the New World: a complete taxonomic revision with a key to species, pp. 1-121 in Zootaxa 4906 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4906.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4434000

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZ
Scientific name authorship
Osten-Sacken
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Cynipidae
Genus
Synergus
Species
laeviventris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Synergus laeviventris (Osten-Sacken, 1861) sec. Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2021

References

  • Osten-Sacken, C. R. von (1861) On the Cynipidae of the North American oaks and their galls. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 1 (3), 47 - 72.
  • Osten-Sacken, C. R. von (1865) Contributions to the natural history of the Cynipidae of the United States and of their galls. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 4 (3), 331 - 380.
  • Lobato-Vila, I., Equihua-Martinez, A., Estrada-Venegas, E., Cibrian-Tovar, D., Barrera-Ruiz, U. M. & Pujade-Villar, J. (2020 c) Synergus Hartig species group (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) with partially smooth mesopleurae from the New World. Zootaxa, 4822 (1), 1 - 38. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4822.1.1
  • Burks, B. D. (1979) Superfamily Cynipoidea. In: Krombein, K. V., Hurd, P. D., Smith, D. R. & Burks, B. D. (Eds.), Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Vol. 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., pp. 1045 - 1107
  • Gillette, C. P. (1896) A monograph of the genus Synergus. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 23, 85 - 100.
  • Harris, T. W. (1841) A report on the insects of Massachusetts, injurious to vegetation. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Printers to the University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 459 pp.
  • Osten-Sacken, C. R. von (1862) Additions and corrections to the paper ' On the Cynipidae of the North American oaks and their galls'. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 1 (8), 241 - 259.
  • Gillette, C. P. (1893) Two new cynipids from Washington state. The Canadian Entomologist, 25 (4), 110 - 111. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 25110 - 4
  • Fitch, A. M. D. (1859) Fifth report on the noxious and other insects of the state of New York. Insects infesting deciduous forest trees. Annual Reports of the New York State Agricultural Society, 18, 781 - 829.