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Issue: Vol. 4341 No. 1: 30 Oct. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-10-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.1.4
Page range: 56–66
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Description of a new Synergus species from China and comments on other inquiline species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)

Department of Animal Biology, Barcelona University, Barcelona 08028, Catalunya.
College of Forest and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Lin’an 311300, China.
Forest Protection Station of Haicheng, Haicheng,114200, China.
College of Forest and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Lin’an 311300, China.
American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA.
Hymenoptera Cynipidae inquilines Synergus Saphonecrus taxonomy new species China

Abstract

A new species, Synergus mongolicus Pujade-Villar & Wang n. sp., is described from galls collected on twigs of Quercus mongolica. The morphological characters useful for differentiating the new species are also discussed. Three inquilines species are recorded from China for the first time: Saphonecrus shirakashii, Synergus belizinellus and S. symbioticus. Saphonecrus tianmushanus is considered a n. syn. of S. shirakashii based on comparison of the types. Saphonecrus taiwanensis Pujade-Villar new name is proposed for Saphonecrus lithocarpii Schwéger & Melika, 2015 by homonymy with S. lithocarpi Pujade-Villar, Guo, Wang & Chen, 2015 and finally Saphonecrus chinensis Tang & Schwéger, 2015 is considered a n. syn. of S. lithocarpi Pujade-Villar, Guo, Wang & Chen, 2015.

 

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