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<mods:titleid="F20BD87E6ABB268160A89118647E46A6">New herb gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aulacideini) from Kyrgyzstan, with description of a new genus and a review of the genus Panteliella Kieffer, 1901</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="BB4D8AD0FD986DE865EDA6A07D76395C">Frost Entomological Museum, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802.</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="DCE693488DA6C7175554BB1C3EE2C05A">Frost Entomological Museum, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802.</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF0DFF3804D1D55F"author="Kieffer, J. J."box="[243,389,250,274]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"refId="ref9612"refString="Kieffer, J. J. (1901 a) Monographie des Cynipides d'Europe et d'Algerie: Les Cynipides. Froment-Dubosclard, Paris, 687 pp."type="book"year="1901">Kieffer, 1901a</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FEF3FEDB04F4D57C"author="Kieffer, J. J."box="[269,416,281,305]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="233 - 579"refId="ref9639"refString="Kieffer, J. J. (1901 b) Synopsis de Zoocecidies d'Europe. Annalles de la Societe Entomologique de France, 1901, 233 - 579. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21686351.1901.12279879"type="journal article"year="1901">Kieffer, 1901b</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF10FEFA0423D502"author="Belizin, V. I."box="[238,375,311,336]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="662 - 674"refId="ref9247"refString="Belizin, V. I. (1959) Gall wasps of the tribe Aylaxini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea) new for the fauna of the U. S. S. R. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 38, 662 - 674."type="book chapter"year="1959">Belizin, 1959</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FBACFE55001AD5FC"author="Vyrzhikovskaya, A. V."box="[1106,1358,407,433]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="138 - 171"refId="ref10548"refString="Vyrzhikovskaya, A. V. (1962) Gall-wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipinae) of the Leningrad Region. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, XXXI, 138 - 171. [in Russian]"type="book chapter"year="1962">Vyrzhikovskaya, 1962</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FECCFE790754D598"author="Rubsaamen, E. H."box="[306,512,443,469]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="396 - 481"refId="ref10418"refString="Rubsaamen, E. H. (1896) Uber russische Zoocecidien und deren Erzeuger. Bulletin de la Societe imperiale des naturalistes de Moscou, 3, 396 - 481."type="journal article"year="1896">Rübsaamen, 1896</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FAEFFE790587D5B4"author="Rubsaamen, E. H."pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="396 - 481"refId="ref10418"refString="Rubsaamen, E. H. (1896) Uber russische Zoocecidien und deren Erzeuger. Bulletin de la Societe imperiale des naturalistes de Moscou, 3, 396 - 481."type="journal article"year="1896">Rübsaamen, 1896</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FDFAFDC107F2D650"author="Kieffer, J. J."box="[516,678,515,541]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"refId="ref9612"refString="Kieffer, J. J. (1901 a) Monographie des Cynipides d'Europe et d'Algerie: Les Cynipides. Froment-Dubosclard, Paris, 687 pp."type="book"year="1901">Kieffer 1901a</bibRefCitation>
,
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).
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FCECFDC10695D650"author="Kieffer, J. J."box="[786,961,515,541]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"refId="ref9612"refString="Kieffer, J. J. (1901 a) Monographie des Cynipides d'Europe et d'Algerie: Les Cynipides. Froment-Dubosclard, Paris, 687 pp."type="book"year="1901">Kieffer (1901a)</bibRefCitation>
, but this name was preoccupied by an orthopteran genus;
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FC66FDE5011FD60C"author="Kieffer, J. J."box="[920,1099,551,577]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="233 - 579"refId="ref9639"refString="Kieffer, J. J. (1901 b) Synopsis de Zoocecidies d'Europe. Annalles de la Societe Entomologique de France, 1901, 233 - 579. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21686351.1901.12279879"type="journal article"year="1901">Kieffer (1901b)</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF69FD750468D69F"author="Belizin, V. I."box="[151,316,695,722]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="662 - 674"refId="ref9247"refString="Belizin, V. I. (1959) Gall wasps of the tribe Aylaxini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea) new for the fauna of the U. S. S. R. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 38, 662 - 674."type="book chapter"year="1959">Belizin (1959)</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF69FD1E049CD6B8"author="Ionescu, M. A. & Roman, N."box="[151,456,731,758]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="221 - 225"refId="ref9557"refString="Ionescu, M. A. & Roman, N. (1960) Un genre nouveau de Cynipides gallicoles Endocaulonia bicolor n. g., n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea). Revue de Biologie Academiei Republicii Populare Romine Bucaresti, 5 (3), 221 - 225."type="journal article"year="1960">Ionescu & Roman (1960)</bibRefCitation>
described another similar species,
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF69FD3D0417D754"author="Quinlan, J."box="[151,323,767,793]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="275 - 286"refId="ref10265"refString="Quinlan, J. (1968) Cynipinae (Hymenoptera) occurring on Phlomis L. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 120, 275 - 286. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1968. tb 00339. x"type="journal article"year="1968">Quinlan (1968)</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FABBFCE1046DD72C"author="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L."pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="175 - 206"refId="ref10135"refString="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (1994) Revision of West-European Genera of the Tribe Aylacini Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 3, 175 - 206."type="journal article"year="1994">Nieves-Aldrey (1994)</bibRefCitation>
synonymized
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, without establishing synonyms at the species level.
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF69FCA9046DD7C8"author="Melika, G."box="[151,313,875,901]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"refId="ref9772"refString="Melika, G. (2006) Gall wasps of Ukraine. Vol. 1. Vestnik zoologii, The Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 300 pp."type="book"year="2006">Melika (2006)</bibRefCitation>
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; the latter synonymy was not discussed beyond mentioning
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and
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remain valid, although the former species has not been mentioned in the literature aside from its original description (
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FB71FBDD00C4D074"author="Vyrzhikovskaya, A. V."box="[1167,1424,1055,1081]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="138 - 171"refId="ref10548"refString="Vyrzhikovskaya, A. V. (1962) Gall-wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipinae) of the Leningrad Region. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, XXXI, 138 - 171. [in Russian]"type="book chapter"year="1962">Vyrzhikovskaya, 1962</bibRefCitation>
). Considering the biologies of synonymized species,
is currently hypothesized to induce galls on the leaves and in the stems and inflorescences (
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FD7CFBA50642D0CC"author="Melika, G."box="[642,790,1127,1153]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"refId="ref9772"refString="Melika, G. (2006) Gall wasps of Ukraine. Vol. 1. Vestnik zoologii, The Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 300 pp."type="book"year="2006">Melika 2006</bibRefCitation>
), which is highly atypical for a gall wasp species. Melika mentions several adult morphological characters that seem to differ depending on the plant organ from which the specimen was reared, particularly the body coloration and the distinction of the notauli. Melika also states that the number of antennomeres in the female varies from
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some specimens, and other characters, such as the dimensions of the marginal cell (there termed the radial cell), vary considerably.
is differential treatments of synonymous taxa in phylogenetic studies.
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF0BFAFD076DD114"author="Liljeblad, J. & Ronquist, F."box="[245,569,1343,1369]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="229 - 252"refId="ref9718"refString="Liljeblad, J. & Ronquist, F. (1998) A phylogenetic analysis of higher-level gall wasp relationships (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Systematic Entomology, 23 (3), 229 - 252. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1365 - 3113.1998.00053. x"type="journal article"year="1998">Liljeblad & Ronquist (1998)</bibRefCitation>
included
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FBE9FAA10042D133"author="Ronquist, F. & Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. & Buffington, M. L. & Liu, Z. & Liljeblad, J. & Nylander, J. A."box="[1047,1302,1379,1406]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"refId="ref10342"refString="Ronquist, F., Nieves-Aldrey, J. L., Buffington, M. L., Liu, Z., Liljeblad, J. & Nylander, J. A. (2015) Phylogeny, evolution and classification of gall wasps: the plot thickens. PLoS ONE, 10 (5), e 0123301. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0123301"type="journal volume"year="2015">
based their morphological analysis on Liljeblad & Ronquist’s character set, apparently without considering the synonymies published by
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. The “
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF69FA31047AD243"author="Belizin, V. I."box="[151,302,1523,1550]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="662 - 674"refId="ref9247"refString="Belizin, V. I. (1959) Gall wasps of the tribe Aylaxini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea) new for the fauna of the U. S. S. R. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 38, 662 - 674."type="book chapter"year="1959">Belizin, 1959</bibRefCitation>
requires further revision, to determine the conspecificity of species currently treated as synonyms, and we presently expect that multiple valid species will be identified among the broad concept of
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FD42F99D0606D234"author="Melika, G."box="[700,850,1631,1657]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"refId="ref9772"refString="Melika, G. (2006) Gall wasps of Ukraine. Vol. 1. Vestnik zoologii, The Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 300 pp."type="book"year="2006">Melika 2006</bibRefCitation>
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we examined, justifying its establishment as a new species. We describe it here as
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FAB3F8D10586D31C"author="Melika, G."pageId="5"pageNumber="516"refId="ref9772"refString="Melika, G. (2006) Gall wasps of Ukraine. Vol. 1. Vestnik zoologii, The Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 300 pp."type="book"year="2006">Melika 2006</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEC4138FF25F8F50496D31C"author="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L."box="[219,450,1847,1873]"pageId="5"pageNumber="516"pagination="393 - 413"refId="ref10170"refString="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (2022) Description of Fumariphilus Nieves-Aldrey, gen. nov., a new genus of herb gall wasps, with a key to genera of the tribe Aulacideini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zootaxa, 5155 (3), 393 - 413. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5155.3.5"type="journal article"year="2022">Nieves-Aldrey 2022</bibRefCitation>
<tableCitationid="D90B037DFFEF413BFE7DFF550482D4FC"box="[387,470,151,177]"captionStart="TABLE 1"captionStartId="6.[152,244,512,536]"captionTargetPageId="6"captionText="TABLE 1. Major characters of valid Panteliella species and synonyms of P. fedtschenkoi. *: Material not examined here; characters based on treatments by Belizin (1959), Ionescu & Roman (1960), Vyrzhikovskaya (1962), Quinlan (1968), Nieves-Aldrey (1994), Liljeblad & Ronquist (1998), Melika (2006)."httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/C0F6664EFFEF413BFF66FDC20696D62D"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"tableUuid="C0F6664EFFEF413BFF66FDC20696D62D">Table 1</tableCitation>
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given in the literature vary substantially and complicate the recognition of the genus. For instance, in the last published generic key (
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFBEEFEE501A9D50C"author="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L."box="[1040,1277,295,321]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="393 - 413"refId="ref10170"refString="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (2022) Description of Fumariphilus Nieves-Aldrey, gen. nov., a new genus of herb gall wasps, with a key to genera of the tribe Aulacideini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zootaxa, 5155 (3), 393 - 413. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5155.3.5"type="journal article"year="2022">Nieves-Aldrey 2022</bibRefCitation>
is the lack of defined lateral propodeal carinae. However, in all specimens we examined here, there are distinct lateral propodeal carinae. To address these conflicting elements, we provide a redescription, based on the material we examined in this study, particularly isotypic specimens of
*: Material not examined here; characters based on treatments by
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFDA4FDE607AFD671"author="Belizin, V. I."box="[602,763,548,572]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="662 - 674"refId="ref9247"refString="Belizin, V. I. (1959) Gall wasps of the tribe Aylaxini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea) new for the fauna of the U. S. S. R. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 38, 662 - 674."type="book chapter"year="1959">Belizin (1959)</bibRefCitation>
,
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,
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFBC9FDE60063D671"author="Vyrzhikovskaya, A. V."box="[1079,1335,548,572]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="138 - 171"refId="ref10548"refString="Vyrzhikovskaya, A. V. (1962) Gall-wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipinae) of the Leningrad Region. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, XXXI, 138 - 171. [in Russian]"type="book chapter"year="1962">Vyrzhikovskaya (1962)</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFF12FD8A048DD62C"author="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L."box="[236,473,584,609]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="175 - 206"refId="ref10135"refString="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (1994) Revision of West-European Genera of the Tribe Aylacini Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 3, 175 - 206."type="journal article"year="1994">Nieves-Aldrey (1994)</bibRefCitation>
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<taxonomicNameid="53894D45FFEF413BFF5DFC9D05BBD7D6"authorityName="Ionescu & Roman"authorityYear="1960"box="[163,305,863,923]"class="Insecta"family="Cynipidae"genus="Endocaulonia"higherTaxonomySource="GBIF"kingdom="Animalia"order="Hymenoptera"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="bicolor">Endocaulonia bicolor</taxonomicName>
, as presently circumscribed, can be easily distinguished from other
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genera by the following combination of characters: Fore wing with marginal cell open; mesopleuron sculpture almost entirely striate (
<figureCitationid="0CB22A43FFEF413BFEAEFB9C04F2D034"box="[336,422,1118,1145]"captionStart="FIGURES 9–14"captionStartId="10.[151,264,1667,1691]"captionTargetBox="[180,1407,181,1644]"captionTargetId="figure-22@10.[180,1407,181,1644]"captionTargetPageId="10"captionText="FIGURES 9–14. Panteliella rugosa Nastasi sp. nov. All images show holotype female INHS Insect Collection 288137. (9) Lateral habitus. (10) Head in anterior view; dotted line indicates ventral margin of clypeus. (11) Mesoscutum in dorsal view. (12) Scutellum in dorsal view. (13) Mesopleuron in lateral view. (14) Fore wing."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14240300"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14240300/files/figure.png"pageId="6"pageNumber="517">Fig. 13</figureCitation>
); second metasomal tergite without conspicuous patch of setae (
<figureCitationid="0CB22A43FFEF413BFB65FB9C01B7D034"box="[1179,1251,1118,1145]"captionStart="FIGURES 9–14"captionStartId="10.[151,264,1667,1691]"captionTargetBox="[180,1407,181,1644]"captionTargetId="figure-22@10.[180,1407,181,1644]"captionTargetPageId="10"captionText="FIGURES 9–14. Panteliella rugosa Nastasi sp. nov. All images show holotype female INHS Insect Collection 288137. (9) Lateral habitus. (10) Head in anterior view; dotted line indicates ventral margin of clypeus. (11) Mesoscutum in dorsal view. (12) Scutellum in dorsal view. (13) Mesopleuron in lateral view. (14) Fore wing."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14240300"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14240300/files/figure.png"pageId="6"pageNumber="517">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
); clypeus large, broadly projecting over base of mandibles and with clypeo-pleurostomal lines strongly divergent ventrally (
<figureCitationid="0CB22A43FFEF413BFAC2FB4000DAD0D0"box="[1340,1422,1154,1181]"captionStart="FIGURES 9–14"captionStartId="10.[151,264,1667,1691]"captionTargetBox="[180,1407,181,1644]"captionTargetId="figure-22@10.[180,1407,181,1644]"captionTargetPageId="10"captionText="FIGURES 9–14. Panteliella rugosa Nastasi sp. nov. All images show holotype female INHS Insect Collection 288137. (9) Lateral habitus. (10) Head in anterior view; dotted line indicates ventral margin of clypeus. (11) Mesoscutum in dorsal view. (12) Scutellum in dorsal view. (13) Mesopleuron in lateral view. (14) Fore wing."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14240300"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14240300/files/figure.png"pageId="6"pageNumber="517">Fig. 10</figureCitation>
); notauli incomplete, poorly impressed, more or less indistinct (
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFCEAFB2D06F2D145"author="Forster, A."box="[788,934,1262,1289]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="325 - 370"refId="ref9503"refString="Forster, A. (1869) Ueber die Gallwespen. Verhandlungen der k. k. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 19, 325 - 370."type="journal article"year="1869">Förster, 1869</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFC4CFB2C01CED144"author="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L."box="[946,1178,1262,1289]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="393 - 413"refId="ref10170"refString="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (2022) Description of Fumariphilus Nieves-Aldrey, gen. nov., a new genus of herb gall wasps, with a key to genera of the tribe Aulacideini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zootaxa, 5155 (3), 393 - 413. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5155.3.5"type="journal article"year="2022">Nieves-Aldrey 2022</bibRefCitation>
), but is easily separated by the notauli (complete and distinctly impressed in
based on the state of the notauli, open marginal cell, and lack of a distinct setose patch on the second metasomal tergite (
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFDF2FA9807B8D138"author="Nastasi, L. F. & Buffington, M. L. & Davis, C. K. & Deans, A. R."box="[524,748,1370,1397]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="177 - 207"refId="ref9809"refString="Nastasi, L. F., Buffington, M. L., Davis, C. K. & Deans, A. R. (2024 a) Key to the North American tribes and genera of herb, rose, bramble, and inquiline gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae sensu lato). ZooKeys, 1196, 177 - 207. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 1196.118460"type="journal article"year="2024">
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFD06FA980616D139"author="Nastasi, L. F. & Tooker, J. F. & Davis, C. K. & Smith, C. N. & Frey, T. S. & Hatfield, M. J. & Presnall, T. M. & Hines, H. M. & Deans, A. R."box="[760,834,1370,1396]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="399 - 439"refId="ref10028"refString="Nastasi, L. F., Tooker, J. F., Davis, C. K., Smith, C. N., Frey, T. S., Hatfield, M. J., Presnall, T. M., Hines, H. M. & Deans, A. R. (2024 b) Cryptic or underworked? Taxonomic revision of the Antistrophus rufus species complex (Cynipoidea, Aulacideini). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97, 399 - 439. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / jhr. 97.121918"type="journal article"year="2024">2024b</bibRefCitation>
). However, the two genera are easily differentiated by the mesopleuron sculpture (always with some amount of perceptible reticulate sculpture in
Head mostly orangish brown or entirely black, mesosoma black, and metasoma dark brown to black. Head subtrapezoidal in anterior view, conspicuously wider than tall. Facial radiating striae always poorly impressed and incomplete, only reaching slightly beyond clypeus. POL much longer than OOL. Malar space much shorter than height of compound eye. Clypeus large, broadly projecting over base of mandibles, and with clypeo-pleurostomal lines strongly divergent ventrally. Female antennae with 13 or 14 antennomeres; males (not examined here) reportedly with 14 or 15. Female F1 equal to F2 (apparently also in males). Mesosoma in lateral view convex to conspicuously angled posteriorly. Lateral pronotum without rugose sculpture (strong rugose sculpture often present in other
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). Pronotal plate incomplete but with lateral sutures terminating only shortly before reaching mesoscutum. Mesopleuron almost entirely striate, with a very small ventral area of reticulate sculpture. Mesoscutum coriaceous to reticulate, occasionally with some degree of perceptible rugose sculpture. Notauli incomplete, narrow, and poorly impressed, most apparent in posterior third of mesoscutum. Median mesoscutal impression not apparent. Mesoscutellar foveae ovate to subquadrate, about one quarter as long as mesoscutellar disc and with posterior margins poorly defined. Propodeum with or without a conspicuous pair of lateral carinae (lateral carinae absent in specimens examined by
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEF413BFBC4F8580066D3F8"author="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L."box="[1082,1330,1946,1973]"pageId="6"pageNumber="517"pagination="393 - 413"refId="ref10170"refString="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (2022) Description of Fumariphilus Nieves-Aldrey, gen. nov., a new genus of herb gall wasps, with a key to genera of the tribe Aulacideini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zootaxa, 5155 (3), 393 - 413. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5155.3.5"type="journal article"year="2022">Nieves-Aldrey [2022]</bibRefCitation>
, in which only a strong median carina is apparent). Fore wing with marginal cell open, with vein R1 indistinctly reaching fore wing margin, and with conspicuous marginal setae. Areolet absent. Metasoma with conspicuous micropunctation at least on third and following metasomal tergites. Second metasomal tergite without setose patch, at most with a few scattered setae.
were described from galls in the inflorescence and cryptic galls in the stems (
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEE413AFB78FE89004FD528"author="Belizin, V. I."box="[1158,1307,330,357]"pageId="7"pageNumber="518"pagination="662 - 674"refId="ref9247"refString="Belizin, V. I. (1959) Gall wasps of the tribe Aylaxini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea) new for the fauna of the U. S. S. R. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 38, 662 - 674."type="book chapter"year="1959">Belizin 1959</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEE413AFAD9FE89047FD5C4"author="Ionescu, M. A. & Roman, N."pageId="7"pageNumber="518"pagination="221 - 225"refId="ref9557"refString="Ionescu, M. A. & Roman, N. (1960) Un genre nouveau de Cynipides gallicoles Endocaulonia bicolor n. g., n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea). Revue de Biologie Academiei Republicii Populare Romine Bucaresti, 5 (3), 221 - 225."type="journal article"year="1960">Ionescu & Roman 1960</bibRefCitation>
<taxonomicNameid="53894D45FFEE413AFD42FEAD0671D5C5"authorityName="Nastasi & Deans"authorityYear="2024"box="[700,805,367,392]"class="Insecta"family="Cynipidae"genus="Panteliella"higherTaxonomySource="GBIF"kingdom="Animalia"order="Hymenoptera"pageId="7"pageNumber="518"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="rugosa"status="sp. nov.">
<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEE413AFF61FE7504D3D59C"author="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L."box="[159,391,439,465]"pageId="7"pageNumber="518"pagination="175 - 206"refId="ref10135"refString="Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (1994) Revision of West-European Genera of the Tribe Aylacini Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 3, 175 - 206."type="journal article"year="1994">Nieves-Aldrey 1994</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEE413AFE6CFE750771D59C"author="Belizin, V. I."box="[402,549,438,465]"pageId="7"pageNumber="518"pagination="662 - 674"refId="ref9247"refString="Belizin, V. I. (1959) Gall wasps of the tribe Aylaxini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea) new for the fauna of the U. S. S. R. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 38, 662 - 674."type="book chapter"year="1959">Belizin 1959</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEE413AFDCEFE750798D59C"author="Quinlan, J."box="[560,716,439,465]"pageId="7"pageNumber="518"pagination="275 - 286"refId="ref10265"refString="Quinlan, J. (1968) Cynipinae (Hymenoptera) occurring on Phlomis L. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 120, 275 - 286. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1968. tb 00339. x"type="journal article"year="1968">Quinlan 1968</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="F0184B37FFEE413AFD29FE75063ED59C"author="Melika, G."box="[727,874,439,465]"pageId="7"pageNumber="518"refId="ref9772"refString="Melika, G. (2006) Gall wasps of Ukraine. Vol. 1. Vestnik zoologii, The Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 300 pp."type="book"year="2006">Melika 2006</bibRefCitation>
<taxonomicNameid="53894D45FFEE413AFE39FE1907DDD5B8"authority="Nastasi"authorityName="Nastasi & Deans"authorityYear="2024"box="[455,649,475,501]"class="Insecta"family="Cynipidae"genus="Panteliella"higherTaxonomySource="GBIF"kingdom="Animalia"order="Hymenoptera"pageId="7"pageNumber="518"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="rugosa"status="sp. nov.">