Genus Synergus

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References

Pumpkin Gall Wasp, hatched from gall on upper leaf surface of Coast Live Oak, Quercus agrifolia - Synergus

Saphonecrus? from red oak twig gall - Synergus lignicola

Cynipid from Quercus prinoides gall - Synergus

Cynipid from Amphibolips quercusjuglans gall - Synergus - female

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 Synergini (Oak Inquiline Gall Wasps)

Genus Synergus

Numbers

63 spp. in our area; 127 spp. worldwide (as of 2019)

Identification

Key to the species of iSynergus associated with tuberous galls from the New World in Lobato-Vila et al., 2019.

Life Cycle

inquiline oak gall wasp

Remarks

-most species recorded in the Nearctic region are addressed by Gillette (1896), but also by Fullaway (1911), McCracken and Egbert (1922) and Burnett (1976)

Print References

Lobato-Vila, I., & Pujade-Villar, J. (2017). Description of five new species of inquiline oak gall wasps of the genus Synergus Hartig (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae: Synergini) with partially smooth mesopleurae from Mexico. Zoological Studies, 56(36), 1-28.

Lobato-Vila, I., Cibrián-Tovar, D., Barrera-Ruíz, U. M., Equihua-Martínez, A., Estrada-Venegas, E. G., Buffington, M. L., & Pujade-Villar, J. (2019). Review of the Synergus Hartig Species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) Associated with Tuberous and Other Tumor-Like Galls on Oaks from the New World with the Description of Three New Species from Mexico. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 121(2), 193-255.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 13 February, 2012 - 1:54pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon, behmrachel
Last updated 10 April, 2024 - 12:26am

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