The genus Synergus Hartig (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) in the New World: a complete taxonomic revision with a key to species
Author
Lobato-Vila, Irene
Author
Pujade-Villar, Juli
0000-0001-7798-2717
jpujade@ub.edu
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-12
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journal article
8839
10.11646/zootaxa.4906.1.1
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Synergus batatoides
Ashmead, 1885
Synergus batatoides
Ashmead, 1885
. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 12: 301.
Type
material: USNM.
Diagnosis
. See Lobato-Vila
et al
. (2019: 198) and the diagnosis of
S. atripes
(this work).
Distribution
.
USA
:
Florida
(
Ashmead 1881
,
1885
; Lobato-Vila
et al.
2019).
Biology
. Reared from asexual galls of
Callirhytis quercusbatatoides
(
Ashmead, 1881
)
on
Quercus
sp. (
Ashmead 1885
), probably the live oak
Q. virginiana
(
Ashmead 1881
;
Burks 1979
;
Pujade-Villar
et al.
2012a
).
Remarks
. The
type
material of
Synergus batatoides
was examined and the species was redescribed and illustrated by Lobato-Vila
et al
. (2019: 198).