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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) » Atrusca

Genus Atrusca

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Egg - Atrusca Cynipid from speckled oak apple - Atrusca aggregata Red swirl gall - Atrusca capronae Wasp ? - Atrusca capronae Pupa, Atrusca aggregata? - Atrusca aggregata Galls, Atrusca aggregata? - Atrusca aggregata Female, Atrusca aggregata? - Atrusca aggregata - female Atrusca sp. Oak Gall Wasp ? - Atrusca
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)
Genus Atrusca
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
5 species from the genus Sphaeroteras and 2 species from the genus Xanthoteras were transferred to Atrusca by Melika & Abrahamson (2002).(1)
Numbers
22 spp. in our area(2)(1)
Identification
1. Atrusca aggregata: AZ (stems of Quercus arizonica, Q. oblongifolia, Q. tounieifi)
2. Atrusca bella: NM, AZ (leaves of Quercus arizonica, Q. oblongifolia, Q. reticulata, Q. subturbinella, Q. toumeyi)
3. Atrusca brevipennata: CO, NM, SE AZ, west TX (leaves of Quercus fendleri, Q. gambelii, Q. grisea, Q. turbinella, Q. x undulata)
4. Atrusca capronae: AZ (leaves of Quercus subturbinella)
5. Atrusca carolina(1): NC, FL, MO, AR, TX (leaves of Quercus alba, Q. stellata)
6. Atrusca catena: TX (leaves of Quercus grisea)
7. Atrusca cava : TX (leaves of Quercus breviloba)
8. Atrusca clavuloides(1): CA (leaves of Quercus lobata)
9. Atrusca clivorum: OH (leaves of Quercus stellata)
10. Atrusca congesta: TX (leaves of Quercus grisea)
11. Atrusca cubitalis: CO, UT (leaves of Quercus gambelii, Q. turbinella, Q. x undulata)
12. Atrusca pulchripenne(1): AZ, CA (leaves of Quercus arizonica, Q.oblongifolia, Q. reticulata, Q. subturbinella, Q. toutneyi)
13. Atrusca pupoides: TX (leaves of Quercus grisea)
14. Atrusca quercuscentricola: NJ to NC, to MO, AR, and TX (leaves of Quercus stellata)
15. Atrusca rydbergiana(1): NM (leaves of Quercus ryclbergiaiia)
16. Atrusca simulatrix: NM, AZ (leaves of Quercus arizonica, Q. gambelii, Q. grisea, Q. oblongifolia, Q. x undulata)
17. Atrusca strians: IL (leaves of Querciis stellata)
18. Atrusca subnigra: NM (leaves of Querciis grisea)
19. Atrusca texana(1): TX (gall unknown)
20. Atrusca trimaculosa(1): CA (leaves of Quercus douglasii, Q. dumosa, Q. garryana, Q. lobata)
21. Atrusca unica(1): MO, AR, TX (leaves of Quercus stellata)
22. Atrusca vanescens : AZ (leaves of Querciis grisea)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 19 December, 2009 - 9:21am
Additional contributions by PaleoJon, egordon88
Last updated 19 October, 2022 - 10:47am

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