Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species
Author
Cuesta-Porta, Victor
0000-0002-6616-904X
vcuesta@ub.edu
Author
Melika, George
0000-0002-5204-6890
melikageorge@gmail.com
Author
Nicholls, James A.
0000-0002-9325-563X
james.nicholls@csiro.au
Author
Stone, Graham N.
0000-0002-2737-696X
graham.stone@ed.ac.uk
Author
Pujade-Villar, Juli
0000-0001-7798-2717
jpujade@ub.edu
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-05-02
5132
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5132.1.1
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Striatoandricus
Pujade-Villar, 2020
Four additional Andricus species are known to induce galls covered in dense woolly pubescence on white oak hosts (see
Fig. 243
for such a gall). Each of these four species was found at have a striato-reticulated metasoma; within the group of Nearctic species previously mis-classified into
Andricus
‘sensu lato’
, this metasomal sculpturing is diagnostic for the genus
Striatoandricus
. In addition, they share the extra characters noted above that allow diagnosis of
Striatoandricus
from
Druon
, and the characters mentioned in the genus-level key within
Melika
et al
. 2021b
that distinguish
Striatoandricus
from other related genera. Thus, we herein transfer these four species to
Striatoandricus
. A key to
Striatoandricus
species was given in
Cuesta-Porta
et al
. (2020)
; herein diagnostic differences are given in a “Diagnosis” to each of the four transferred species.