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Issue: Vol. 4441 No. 1: 26 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.6
Page range: 109–120
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New species of cynipid inquiline, Saphonecrus kuriphilusi (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), from Dryocosmus kuriphilus galls in Greece

Plant Health and Molecular Biology Laboratory, National Food Chain Safety Office, Directorate of Plant Protection, Soil Conservation and Agri-environment, Budaörsi str. 141–145, Budapest 1118, Hungary
Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter, 570 06 Vassilika-Thesalloniki, Greece
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, Scotland, U.K. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Clunies Ross Street, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia
Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter, 570 06 Vassilika-Thesalloniki, Greece
Hymenoptera chestnut gallwasp parasitoid new species taxonomy morphology

Abstract

Since Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) emerged worldwide as a dangerous pest of chestnuts, there is only one dubious record from Japan of a cynipid inquiline reared from its galls. This is the first comprehensively documented record of a cynipid inquiline, Saphonecrus kuriphilusi, new species reared from galls of D. kuriphilus in Greece. Morphological description, morphological and molecular diagnostic characters for the new species are given.

 

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