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Issue: Vol. 2865 No. 1: 3 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2865.1.2
Page range: 37–52
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

New species of oak gallwasps from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227 Taiwan
Pest Diagnostic Laboratory, Plant Protection & Soil Conservation Directorate of County Vas, Ambrozy setany 2, 9762 Tanakajd (Hungary)
Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227 Taiwan
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Scotland, U.K.
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Scotland, U.K.
Hymenoptera Andricus Plagiotrochus taxonomy distribution biology

Abstract

Three new species of oak gallwasps from Taiwan are described: Andricus songshui and Andricus pseudocurvator, both known to induce integral leaf galls on Quercus serrata, and Plagiotrochus glaucus which induces stem swelling-like galls on Quercus glauca. Galls and adults of new species are described; data on the diagnosis, distribution and biology of the new species and a key to the Taiwanese Andricus species are also given.

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