Synergus cultratus Ritchie & Shorthouse, 1987

Lobato-Vila, Irene & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2021, The genus Synergus Hartig (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) in the New World: a complete taxonomic revision with a key to species, Zootaxa 4906 (1), pp. 1-121 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4906.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:09383AAD-8E30-4E50-A533-C6DA4D00E33C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4433930
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scientific name	Synergus cultratus Ritchie & Shorthouse, 1987
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Treatment

Synergus cultratus Ritchie & Shorthouse, 1987 . Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 89 (2): 231. Type material: AMNH (holotype), paratypes in AMNH, USNM and CAS .

Diagnosis. See Lobato-Vila et al. (2019: 206).

Distribution. Guatemala ( Ritchie & Shorthouse 1987).

Biology. Woody tuberous galls on stems of Q. peduncularis ( Ritchie & Shorthouse 1987; Lobato-Vila et al. 2019), one of them probably belonging to a species similar to ‘ Andricus ruginosus Basset, 1890 ’ (considered as incertae sedis by Pujade-Villar 2013). According to Nieves-Aldrey & Medianero (2011), the other galls might correspond to a species of Andricus that produces galls similar to those of Odontocyinps championi (Cameron, 1833) .

Remarks. The type material of Synergus cultratus was examined and the species was treated and illustrated by Lobato-Vila et al. (2019: 205).