Synergus punctatus Gillette, 1896

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 : 85

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.4433975
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BF702A-9551-FF96-FDE5-FE09767AFD18
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Synergus punctatus Gillette, 1896
status

Treatment

Synergus punctata Gillette, 1896 . Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 23: 94. Type material: USNM.

Synergus punctatus: McCracken & Egbert (1922) . Stanford Univ., Pubs., Univ. Ser. Biol. Sci. 3 (1): 49.

Diagnosis. See Lobato-Vila et al. (2020c: 29).

Distribution. USA: Colorado ( Gillette 1896) and California ( McCracken & Egbert 1922).

Biology. According to Gillette (1896) and McCracken & Egbert (1922), this species is associated with galls of Disholcaspis rubens ( Gillette, 1893) , D. eldoradensis (Beutenmüller, 1909) , and Biorhiza eburnea (Bassett, 1890) (= Dryophanta glabra Gillette, 1894 ) (the latter considered incertae sedis after Pujade-Villar et al. 2018), always reared from oaks from Quercus section ( Burks 1979): Q. arizonica , Q. dumosa , Q. gambelii , Q. garryana , Q. lobata , Q. oblongifolia , Q. rugosa , Q. toumeyi , Q. turbinella , and Q. x undulata .

Remarks. The type material of Synergus punctatus was examined and the species was redescribed and illustrated by Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar (2017: 17). It was also treated by Lobato-Vila et al. (2020c: 29).