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Belizinella vicina Kovalev 1965

Description

Belizinella vicina Kovalev, 1965

Bellizinella vicina Kovalev, 1965: 28, ǒ [comb. rev. in Melika (2012: 145)].

Trigonaspis vicina (Kovalev) Melika & Abrahamson (2002: 182), ǒ [Belizinella was re-established by Melika (2012)].

Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia Province) (Ju et al. 2022: in press) and the Russian Far East (Kovalev 1965: 29).

Biology. Only the asexual generation has been described, which induces detachable ball-like leaf galls on Q. mongolica (sect. Quercus) (Table 1; Kovalev 1965; Melika 2012).

Notes

Published as part of IRENE LOBATO-VILA, ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA, GEORGE MELIKA, GRAHAM N. STONE, CHANGTI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, ZHIQIANG FANG, YING ZHU, YIPING WANG, SUNGHOON JUNG, JAMES A. NICHOLLS & JULI PUJADE-VILLAR, 2022, A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini), pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5161 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6793652

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References

  • Kovalev, O. V. (1965) Gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) from the south of the Soviet Far East. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 44 (1 / 2), 46 - 73. [in Russian; English translation in Entomology Review, 44, 25 - 38]
  • Melika, G. & Abrahamson, W. G. (2002) Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). In: Melika, G. & Thuroczy, C. (Eds.), Parasitic Wasps: Evolution, Systematics, Biodiversity and Biological Control. Agroinform, Budapest, pp. 150 - 190.
  • Ju, X., Zhao, H., Liu, H., Wang, Y., Sala-Nishikawa, A., Cuesta-Porta, V. & Pujade-Villar, J. (2022) Four oak gall-inducing species in China, with a redescription of Belizinella vicina Kovalev (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zoological Systematics, 47 [in press].