A Taxonomic Review of the Gall Wasp Genus Saphonecrus Dalla-Torre and Kieffer and other Oak Cynipid Inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) from Mainland China, with Updated Keys to Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Species
Author
Lobato-Vila, Irene
Author
Wang, Yiping
Author
Melika, George
Author
Guo, Rui
Author
Ju, Xiaoxue
Author
Pujade-Villar, Juli
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Zoological studies
2021
Zool. Stud.
2021-03-22
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journal article
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10.6620/ZS.2021.60-10
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PMC8315927
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Saphonecrus gilvus
Melika and Schwéger, 2015
Saphonecrus gilvus
Melika and Schwéger
in
Schwéger et al. (2015b)
. Zootaxa 4054(1): 16. Type material: NCHU (
holotype
),
paratypes
in NCHU, PHMBL, and USNM.
Material examined
(13 and 38): Deposited in
ZAFU
and
UB
with the following data: Taohuacun, Dabie Mountain, Yin, Huanggang (
Hubei
), Ex unknown gall, unknown tree, (
23.vi.2014
)
25.vii.2014
(18 deposited in
ZAFU
); Du Mountain (
Guizhou
), Ex unknown gall, unknown tree,
27.vi.1980
, Shengxhen Zhou leg. (18 deposited in
ZAFU
); West Tianmu Mountain, Lin’an, Hangzhou (
Zhejiang
), Ex unknown gall,
Q. stewardiana
, (
07.ix.2010
)
11.ix.2010
, Rui Guo leg. (13 and 18 deposited in
UB
).
Diagnosis
:
Saphonecrus gilvus
is characterized by having lateral pronotal carina, which is short and incomplete, weak, indistinct dorsally (pronotum not sharply angled in dorsal view), simple tarsal claws (without a basal lobe), complete notauli and radial cell of the fore wing at most 3.0x as long as wide. Another species shares all these characteristics:
S. emarginatus
. The main differences between these two species have already been commented (see the diagnosis of
S. emarginatus
).
Distribution
:
Taiwan
.
Taichung
county (
Schwéger et al. 2015b
). First record of this species from mainland
China
(
Guizhou
,
Hubei
, and
Zhejiang
Provinces).
Biology
: Reared from undescribed hairy round galls on leaf midribs of
Quercus gilva
Blume (
Schwéger et al. 2015b
)
. The new material examined presented here was reared from unknown galls on
Q. stewardiana
, as well as from other unknown galls on unknown host trees.