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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) » Herb Gall Wasps (Aulacideini) » Aulacidea » annulata or tumida (Aulacidea annulata or tumida)

annulata or tumida

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Remarks · Works Cited
Gall Wasp - Aulacidea stem gall on wild lettuce - Aulacidea Unidentified Gall - Aulacidea Cynipid from Lactuca gall - Aulacidea - female Cynipidae, stem gall #2 on Wild Lettuce - Aulacidea Cynipidae, Wild Lettuce stem gall, burned - Aulacidea Cynipidae, stem gall - Aulacidea Cynipidae, stem gall, emergent holes - Aulacidea
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 Aulacideini (Herb Gall Wasps)
Genus Aulacidea
No Taxon annulata or tumida
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
According to Louis Nastasi, "Aulacidea annulata and tumida are 100% synonyms as confirmed by both DNA barcoding and morphological evidence, to be published in my upcoming revision."
Remarks
Galls of Aulacidea tumida Bassett are "fusiform pithy stem swellings high on the stem of Lactuca canadensis [wild lettuce], bearing many leaves or branches." A. annulata Kinsey, described from Sharon, MA, is "doubtfully distinct from the above." (1) Galls of A. tumida were recorded on sow-thistle (Sonchus) in Burks, 1979, but this record is almost certainly given in error. (2)
Works Cited
1.Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States
Lewis H. Weld. 1959. Privately printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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 11 April, 2011 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by Louis Nastasi
Last updated 25 March, 2024 - 8:20am

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