Ceroptres quercusficu

Lobato-Vila, Irene & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2019, Revision of world Ceroptresini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with the description of a new genus and five new species, Zootaxa 4685 (1), pp. 1-67 : 61

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Ceroptres quercusficu s ( Fitch, 1859) nom. dub.

Cynips View in CoL q. ficus Fitch, 1859 . Trans. N. Y. State Agr. Soc. 18: 812. Type material: USNM [Poor conditions].

Ceroptres ficus (Fitch) Osten-Sacken, 1865 . Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. 4: 368 [Unjustified emendation for specific name]. Ceroptres quercus-ficus (Fitch) Weld, 1951 . U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2: 614.

Ceroptres quercusficus (Fitch) Burks in Krombein et al. 1979 . Smithson. Ins. Press: 1065.

Distribution. USA. State of New York, according to Burks (1979).

Biology. Reared from galls of Xanthoteras quercusforticone ( Walsh, 1864) on Q. alba , according to Osten- Sacken (1865: 350, 369).

Remarks. Walsh (1864: 494) mentions that C. quercusficus is a possible synonymy of Synophrus ? laeviventris Osten-Sacken, 1861, but Osten-Sacken (1865: 375) transferred Synophrus ? laeviventris to Synergus . We examined the type material of Synophrus ? laeviventris deposited in MCZ and confirmed that it belongs to Synergus , clearly differing from that of C. quercusficus . However, the type material of C. quercusficus , which is deposited in USNM (4♀ pierced through the mesosoma by thin pins, all four mounted on a piece of wood in the same pin with ‘Fitch’s type’ and ‘Fitch’s coll’ labels), is in poor conditions, thus making it hard to appreciate some of its diagnostic morphological traits, and Fitch’s original description (1859: 812) for Cynips q. ficus is very poor and thus insufficient to distinguish this species from the rest of Ceroptres . Osten-Sacken (1865: 368), who transferred the species to Ceroptres , says nothing new about its morphology. Hence, we here propose to place Ceroptres quercusficus ( Fitch, 1859) as nomen dubium, because the type material deposited in USNM corresponds to Ceroptres , but it is impossible to recognize the species morphologically.

References

Burks, B. D. (1979) Superfamily Cynipoidea. In: Krombein, K. V., Hurd, P. D., Smith, D. R. & Burks, B. D. (Eds.), Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Vol. 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., pp. 1045 - 1107.

Fitch, A. M. D. (1859) Fifth report on the noxious and other insects of the state of New York. Insects infesting deciduous forest trees. Annual Reports of the New York State Agricultural Society, 18, 781 - 829.

Osten-Sacken, C. R. von. (1861) On the Cynipidae of the North American oaks and their galls. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 1 (3), 47 - 72.

Osten-Sacken, C. R. von. (1865) Contributions to the natural history of the Cynipidae of the United States and of their galls. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 4 (3), 331 - 380.

Walsh, B. D. (1864) On dimorphism in the hymenopterous genus Cynips; with an appendix, containing hints for a new classification of Cynipidae and a list of Cynipidae, including descriptions of several new species, inhabiting the oak-galls of Illinois. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 2, 443 - 500.

Weld, L. H. (1951) Superfamily Cynipoidea. In: Muesebeck, C. F. W., Krombein, K. V. & Townes, H. K. (Eds.), Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico. Agricultural Monograph 2. United States Government Printing Office, Washington D. C., pp. 594 - 654.