Synergus mesoamericanus 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 : 66

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.4433959
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BF702A-9544-FF83-FDE5-F9B471E4F9B4
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Synergus mesoamericanus Ritchie & Shorthouse, 1987
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Treatment

Synergus mesoamericanus Ritchie & Shorthouse, 1987 . Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 89 (2): 239. Type material: AMNH (holotype), paratypes in AMNH and CAS .

Diagnosis. See Lobato-Vila et al. (2019: 228).

Distribution. Guatemala ( Ritchie & Shorthouse 1987) and Panama ( Nieves-Aldrey & Medianero 2011).

Biology. Reared from tuberous galls probably induced by a species of Andricus on Q. peduncularis in Guatemala ( Ritchie & Shorthouse 1987), and from tuberous galls of Odontocynips championi on Q. sapotifolia collected in Panama ( Nieves-Aldrey & Medianero 2011).

Remarks. The type material of Synergus mesoamericanus was examined and the species was redescribed and illustrated by Lobato-Vila et al. (2019: 228).