A New Genus of Oak Gall Wasp, Striatoandricus Pujade-Villar (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from America with Descriptions of Two New Mexican Species
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Cuesta-Porta, Víctor
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Arnedo, Miquel A.
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Cibrián-Tovar, David
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Barrera-Ruiz, Uriel M.
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García-Martiñón, Rosa D.
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Equihua-Martínez, Armando
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Estrada-Venegas, Edith G.
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Clark-Tapia, Ricardo
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Romero-Range, Silvia
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Pujade-Villar, Juli
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Zoological studies
2020
Zool. Stud.
2020-02-27
59
8
1
21
journal article
10.6620/ZS.2020.59-08
Stiatoandricus nievesaldreyi
(
Pujade-Villar
2011) n. comb.
Andricus mexicanus
Kinsey 1920: 309
[non
Andricus mexicana
Bassett, 1890
]
Andricus nievesaldreyi
Pujade-Villar 2011
; in
Pujade-Villar et al. 2011: 32
[new name]
Studied material
: For
type
material consult
Kinsey (1920)
and
Pujade-Villar et al. (2011)
.
Additional material
: MEX-039, Parque Nacional de la Sierra de Quila (Tecolotlán, Jalisco,
México
), (
06. iii.2010
)
16–20.iii.2010
: 68, Ex
Q. magnoliifolia
, A. Equihua and E. Estrada
leg.; MEX-050, Parque Nacional de la Sierra de Quila (Tecolotlán.
Jalisco
,
México
), (06.iii.10) 16–20.iii.10: 28, Ex
Q. magnoliifolia
, A. Equihua and E. Estrada
leg.; MEX-308, Natívitas (
Tlaxcala
,
México
), (
13.i.2015
)
19.ii.2015
: 28, Ex
Quercus
sp.
, A. Equihua and E. Estrada leg.; MEX-318, Mineral el Chico: Mineral el Chico (
Hidalgo
,
México
), (
08.x.2014
)
20-x.2014
: 18, Ex
Q. rugosa
, Elgar Castillo
leg. (11G); MEX-319, Coajomulco: Coajomulco (
Morelos
,
México
), (
05.xii.2016
)
22- xii.2016
: 118, Ex
Q. rugosa
, Elgar Castillo
leg. (11H); MEX-322, Coajomulco: Coajomulco (
Morelos
,
México
), (
05.xii.2016
)
16-xii.2016
: 98, Ex
Q. rugosa
, Elgar Castillo
leg. (12C); MEX-323, Coajomulco: Coajomulco (
Morelos
,
México
), (
05.xii.2016
)
16– xii.2016
: 48, Ex
Q. rugosa
, Elgar Castillo
leg. (12D); MEX-325, Coajomulco: Coajomulco (
Morelos
,
México
), (
05.xii.2016
)
11-xii.2016
: 28, Ex
Q. rugosa
, Elgar Castillo
leg. (12F); MEX-329, Coajomulco: Coajomulco (
Morelos
,
México
), (
05.xii.2016
)
15- xii.2016
: 18, Ex
Q. rugosa
, Elgar Castillo
leg. (12J); MEX-345, Zumpimito (
19°22'27.4"N
,
102°02'56.7"W
), Urapan (
Michoacán
,
México
), (
iii.2018
)
15.vi.2018
: 68, Ex
Quercus
sp
, A. Equihua and E. Estrada leg.; MEX-346, Coajomulco: Coajomulco (
Morelos
,
México
), (
05.xii.2016
)
17.xii.2016
: 58, Ex
Q. rugosa
, Elgar Castillo
leg.(12G); MEX-347, Santa Fe (
Ciudad de México
,
México
),
15.i.2016
(
25.iii.2016
): 68, Ex
Q. laeta
, DCT
leg. (2881). Supplementary material: MEX-105 MAZ-Unknown location (
México
), (
10.i.2012
)
07.ii.2012
, Ex
Quercus
sp.
, A. Equihua and E. Estrada leg.
© 2020 Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hosts
: The first hosts for this species are mentioned here:
Q. laeta
Liebm.
,
Q. magnoliifolia
Née
and
Q. rugosa
Née
(
Quercus
section).
Distribution
:
México
, described from material collected in the Sierra de
Nayarit
(
Jalisco
,
México
). Its distribution also includes in the states of Ciudad
México
,
Hidalgo
,
Michoacán
,
Morelos
and
Tlaxcala
.
Remarks
:
Kinsey (1920)
described
Andricus mexicanus
from
four adults
that emerged in 1919 from galls on the upper side of leaves. Those galls were collected in 1900 by Diquet in Sierra de
Nayarit
(
Jalisco
,
México
) presumably from
Q. magnifolia
Née
(=
Q. macrophylla
Née
).
Kinsey (1920)
assigned to this species the individuals determined as
Andricus mexicana
Bassett, 1890
and
Cynips guatemalensis
Cameron, 1883
from the collections of
Bassett (1890)
at Guadalajara mountains (
México
) and
Cameron (1883)
at San Jerónimo (Guadalajara,
México
), respectively. A solution for the homonymy between Kinsey’s and Bassett’s species was proposed in
Pujade-Villar et al. (2011)
by changing the name of
Andricus mexicanus
Kinsey 1920
to
Andricus nievesaldreyi
Pujade-Villar 2011
. The species
A. mexicana
Bassett
and
C. guatemalensis
Cameron
were only described through velvety galls on leaves. Both adults with smooth metasoma (
Andricus tecturnarum
group) and with striate metasoma (
Striatoandricus
) emerge from this
type
of galls from
USA
and
México
. Thus,
Pujade-Villar et al. (2011)
considered those two species
incertae sedis
until similar galls are collected at the
type
localities and the adults emerge.
There exists a big morphological variability in adults of this species in the following characters: (i) the color is very variable, usually is ambarine with black marks but some specimens lack black marks and others are black and (ii) the metasoma sculpture has smooth areas with variably extension.