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Issue: Vol. 5498 No. 1: 28 Aug. 2024
Type: Monograph
Published: 2024-08-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5498.1.1
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Review of the Mexican species of Disholcaspis Dalla Torre & Kieffer with the description of eleven new species

Universitat de Barcelona; Facultat de Biologia; Departament de Biologia Evolutiva; Ecología i Ciències Ambientals; Avda. Diagonal 645; 08028-Barcelona; Catalonia
Department of Agricultural Biology; 301 University Avenue; Fort Collins; Colorado; USA
Plant Health Diagnostic National Reference Laboratory; National Food Chain Safety Office; Budaörsi str. 141-145; Budapest 1118; Hungary
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala; Laboratorio de Ecología y Taxonomía de Árboles y Arbustos. Av. de los Barrios 1; Los Reyes Iztacala. Tlalnepantla de Baz; Estado de México
Instituto de Fitosanidad; Colegio de Postgraduados; 56230 Montecillo; Texcoco; Estado de México (Mexico)
Instituto de Fitosanidad; Colegio de Postgraduados; 56230 Montecillo; Texcoco; Estado de México (Mexico)
Instituto de Estudios Ambientales; Universidad de la Sierra Juárez; UNSIJ; Avenida Universidad s/n; Col. Ixtlán de Juárez; C. P. 68725; Oaxaca; México
Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación (CIByC). Universidad Autónoma de Morelos. Avenida Universidad; 1001 Col. Chamilpa; C. P. 62209. Cuernavaca. Morelos
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala; Laboratorio de Ecología y Taxonomía de Árboles y Arbustos. Av. de los Barrios 1; Los Reyes Iztacala. Tlalnepantla de Baz; Estado de México
Universitat de Barcelona; Facultat de Biologia; Departament de Biologia Evolutiva; Ecología i Ciències Ambientals; Avda. Diagonal 645; 08028-Barcelona; Catalonia
Hymenoptera Taxonomy morphology Disholcaspis Cynipini Mexico

Abstract

Disholcaspis Dalla Torre & Kieffer, 1910 is reviewed for the first time in Mexico. A total of 23 species have been studied, 12 previously known species, 11 new species, and one new synonym: D. brasoae Cuesta-Porta, sp. nov., D. callosa Pujade-Villar, Kinsey† & Cuesta-Porta, sp. nov., D. carpenteri Pujade-Villar, Cuesta-Porta & Melika, sp. nov., D. cinerosa (Bassett, 1881) (= D. pallens Kinsey, 1938 syn. nov.), D. cordifoliae Cuesta-Porta, Pujade-Villar & Kinsey†, sp. nov., D. crystalae Pujade-Villar, 2018, D. cummingi Pujade-Villar, Melika & Cuesta-Porta, sp. nov., D. familiaris Cuesta-Porta, sp. nov., D. hermesi Cuesta-Porta, Pujade-Villar & Melika, sp. nov., D. insulana Kinsey, 1938, D. laetae Kinsey, 1937, D. largior Kinsey, 1938, D. mexicana (Beutenmüller, 1911), D. nayeliae Cuesta-Porta, Melika & Pujade-Villar, sp. nov., D. potosina Kinsey, 1937, D. pulla Kinsey, 1937, D. punicea Pujade-Villar, Kinsey† & Cuesta-Porta, sp. nov., D. purlans Kinsey, 1937, D. purpurea Kinsey, 1937, D. puta Kinsey†, Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar, sp. nov., D. raptor Pujade-Villar, Kinsey † & Cuesta-Porta, sp. nov., D. regina Kinsey, 1937, and D. unicolor Kinsey, 1920. We provide the descriptions of the new species, the re-descriptions of the previously known species, diagnoses and the first key to species for the Mexican Disholcaspis.

 

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