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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Gall Wasps (Cynipidae) » Oak Gall Wasps (Cynipini)

Tribe Cynipini - Oak Gall Wasps

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Red Cynipid? - Live Version - Kokkocynips - female Oak Leaf Gall ID Request - Andricus chinquapin Disholcaspis washingtonensis? - Burnettweldia washingtonensis Gall wasp - Belonocnema kinseyi Woolly Catkin Gall Wasp? - Callirhytis quercusoperator Galls on scrub oak resemble Disholcaspis - Atrusca capronae galls on bur oak - Andricus quercusstrobilanus Gall Wasp - Andricus quercuscalifornicus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Cynipoidea
Family Cynipidae (Gall Wasps)
Tribe Cynipini (Oak Gall Wasps)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cynipsera Latreille, 1802
Numbers
34 genera and about 1000 species worldwide (1).
Remarks
Gallers on Fagaceae (Quercus, Castanea, Chrysolepis, Lithocarpus)(1).
Print References
George Melika and Warren G. Abrahamson. 2002. Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini). Parasitic Wasps Evolution Systematics Biodiversity and Biological Control 42(1):150-190. (2)
Doutt, R.L. (1959) Heterogeny in Dryocosmus (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 52: 69-74.
Doutt, R.L. (1960) Heterogeny in Andricus crystallinus Bassett (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 36: 167-170. (Full Text)
Evans, D. (1967) The bisexual and agamic generations of Besbicus mirabilis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), and their associate insects. The Canadian Entomologist 99: 187-196.
Evans, D. (1972) Alternate generations of gall cynipids (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on Garry oak. The Canadian Entomologist 104: 1805-1818.
Lyon, R.J. (1959) An alternating, sexual generation in the gall wasp Callirhytis pomiformis (Ashm.) (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences 58: 33-37.
Lyon, R.J. (1963) The alternate generation of Heteroecus pacificus (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 65: 250-254. (Full Text)
Lyon, R.J. (1964) The alternate generation of Callirhytis agrifoliae (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea).Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 66: 193-196. (Full Text)
Lyon, R.J. (1969) The alternate generation of Callirhytis quercussuttonii (Bassett) (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 71: 61-65. (Full Text)
Lyon, R.J. (1970) Heterogeny in Callirhytis serricornis (Kinsey) (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 72: 176-178. (Full Text)
Lyon, R.J. (1984) New Cynipid Wasps from California (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 60(4): 289-296. (Full Text)
Internet References
See Gallformers.org for a filterable key to galls induced by members of this tribe on oaks in North America (as well as galls found on oaks induced by other organisms).
Works Cited
1.Phylogeny, Evolution and Classification of Gall Wasps: The Plot Thickens
2.Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)
George Melika and Warren G. Abrahamson. 2002. Parasitic Wasps Evolution Systematics Biodiversity and Biological Control 42(1):150-190.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 10 February, 2012 - 1:37pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, Edward Ruden, Adamkranz, PaleoJon
Last updated 6 January, 2024 - 2:01pm

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