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Issue: Vol. 3630 No. 3: 21 Mar. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-03-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3630.3.8
Page range: 534–548
Abstract views: 35
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A new genus of oak gallwasp, Cyclocynips Melika, Tang & Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan

Budapest Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratory, National Food Chain Safety Office, Directorate of Plant Protection, Soil Conservation and Agri-environment, Budaörsi str. 141-145, Budapest 1118, 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
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
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 Cynipidae oak gallwasp Cyclocynips cytochrome b

Abstract

A new genus of cynipid oak gallwasp—Cyclocynips Melika, Tang, & Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with two new species—C. uberis and C. tumorvirgae—reared from galls on oaks of the Quercus subgenus Cyclobalanopsis is described fromTaiwan. Descriptions of asexual generation adults and their diagnostic characters are presented. The likelihood of yet undiscovered sexual generations and the evolution of host-plant associations in these species are discussed.

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