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
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jpujade@ub.edu
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Zootaxa
2021
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Synergus pseudofilicornis
Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2018
Synergus pseudofilicornis
Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar in Lobato-Vila
et al
. (2018)
. Southwest. Entomol. 43 (3): 600. Type material: UB (
holotype
),
paratypes
in
UB
, UACh, and USNM.
Diagnosis
. See
Lobato-Vila
et al
. (2020b: 703)
and the diagnoses of
S. diversicolor
and
S. weldi
,
sp. nov.
(this work).
Distribution
.
Mexico
:
Ciudad de México
,
Hidalgo
,
México
,
Morelos
,
Nuevo León
,
Puebla
,
Tlaxcala
, and
Veracruz
(Lobato-Vila
et al
. 2018, 2019, 2020b).
Biology
.
Synergus pseudofilicornis
is considered a generalist species, even though it is more frequently reared from asexual tuberous twig galls of
Andricus quercuslaurinus
Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2009
on
Q. affinis
and
Q. laurina
(
Pujade-Villar
et al.
2012a
;
Tormos
et al.
2014
; Pujade-Villar 2017; Lobato-Vila
et al.
2018, 2019, 2020b). It can be also obtained from sexual galls of
A. quercuslaurinus
(non-tuberous) and from other tuberous galls initiated by different species of
Andricus
(Lobato-Vila
et al.
2019)
. According to
Lobato-Vila
et al
. (2020b)
,
S.
pseudofilicornis
can be also reared from woolly galls induced by different
Andricus
and
Striatoandricus
species, as well as from non-woolly galls (tuberous and non-tuberous) initiated by
Andricus
,
Atrusca
,
Cynips
,
Dros
,
Neuroterus
and other undetermined galls on oaks of both
Quercus
and
Lobatae
sections.
Remarks
. The morphological variability of
S. pseudofilicornis
, as well as its host preferences, was comprehensively treated and illustrated by
Lobato-Vila
et al
. (2020b: 704)
.