Synergus flavens McCracken & Egbert, 1922

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 : 56

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scientific name	Synergus flavens McCracken & Egbert, 1922
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Synergus flavens McCracken & Egbert, 1922 . Stanford Univ., Pubs., Univ. Ser. Biol. Sci. 3 (1): 55. Type material: CAS (lectotype), paralectotypes in USNM .

Synergus variegatus McCracken & Egbert, 1922 . Stanford Univ., Pubs., Univ. Ser. Biol. Sci. 3 (1): 51 (in part). Type material (in part): CAS. Synonymized by Lobato-Vila et al. (2020c: 16).

Diagnosis. See Lobato-Vila et al. (2020c: 17).

Distribution. USA: California ( McCracken & Egbert 1922; Lobato-Vila et al. 2020c).

Biology. Reared from galls of Heteroecus flavens ( McCracken & Egbert, 1922) and H. pacificus ( Ashmead, 1896) (= Andricus pacificus ) on Q. vaccinifolia ( McCracken & Egbert 1922) , and from galls of Trichoteras coquilletti Ashmead, 1897 on Q. chrysolepis ( Lobato-Vila et al. 2020c) .

Remarks. The type material of Synergus flavens , as well as of its synonym ( S. variegatus ), was examined and the species was redescribed and illustrated by Lobato-Vila et al. (2020c: 16).