Biorhiza Westwood, 1840

Shachar, Einat, Melika, George, Inbar, Moshe & Dorchin, Netta, 2018, The oak gall wasps of Israel (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) - diversity, distribution and life history, Zootaxa 4521 (4), pp. 451-498 : 470-471

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scientific name	Biorhiza Westwood, 1840
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A Holarctic genus with six species, four of which in the Nearctic Region ( Melika & Abrahamson 2002), one - B. nawai (Ashmead) in the Eastern Palaearctic, and another - B. pallida in the Western Palaearctic. All species are

associated with oaks of section Quercus , on which the asexual generation develops in root galls and the sexual generation in bud galls ( Melika 2006b).

References

Melika, G. & Abrahamson, W. G. (2002) Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). In: Melika, G. & Thuroczy, C. (Eds.), Parasitic Wasps: Evolution, Systematics, Biodiversity and Biology Control, Agroinform, Budapest, pp. 150 - 190.

Melika, G. (2006 b) Gall wasps of Ukraine: Cynipidae. Vol. 2. Festnik Zoologii, 21 (Supplement), 305 - 644.

Westwood, J. O. (1840) An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects Founded on Natural Habits and Corresponding Organisation of the Different Families. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 587 pp.