Key to the North American tribes and genera of herb, rose, bramble, and inquiline gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae sensu lato)
Author
Nastasi, Louis F.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7825-480X
Frost Entomological Museum, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, 501 Agricultural Science & Industries Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
lfnastasi@gmail.com
Author
Buffington, Matthew L.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-3861
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA-ARS, c / o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC, 20013, USA
Author
Davis, Charles K.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6056-3903
Frost Entomological Museum, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, 501 Agricultural Science & Industries Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
Author
Deans, Andrew R.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2119-4663
Frost Entomological Museum, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, 501 Agricultural Science & Industries Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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Diastrophini
Figs 73-75
, 92-94
Diagnosis.
Pronotum tall and broad dorsomedially. Pronotal submedial pits distinct and well-impressed. Pronotal plate present and complete, distinct both dorsally and ventrally. Mesopleuron sculpture striate or smooth and shining. Mesoscutellar foveae distinct. Fore wing with marginal cell entirely open or entirely closed, never partially open. Wings often with darkened areas, especially around the marginal cell. Metatarsal claws always with basal lobe. Metasomal tergites 2 and 3 either free and articulate, or fused into a syntergite in some females.
Figures 73-75.
73
Diastrophus kincaidii
, lateral view (PSUC_FEM 000251280)
74
Periclistus
sp., lateral view (PSUC_FEM 000250920)
75
Synophromorpha
sp., lateral view (PSUC_FEM 000250918).
Note.
Diastrophini
includes 25 described North American species in three genera:
Diastrophus
Hartig, 1840,
Periclistus
Foerster
, 1869, and
Synophromorpha
Ashmead, 1903 (
Nastasi and Deans 2021
). The North American members of this tribe are gall inducers on various
Rosaceae
or inquilines in the galls of
Diastrophus
Hartig, 1840 or
Diplolepis
Geoffroy, 1762 (
Nastasi and Deans 2021
).