Callirhytis quercuscatesbaei ASHMEAD, 1881

Melika, G & Abrahamson, WG, 2007, Review Of The Nearctic Gallwasp Species Of The Genus Bassettia Ashmead, 1887, With Description Of New Species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53 (2), pp. 131-148 : 146

Callirhytis quercuscatesbaei ASHMEAD, 1881

Cynips q. catesbaei ASHMEAD 1881 : xv. Female, male, gall.

Andricus (Andricus) catesbaei ASHMEAD 1885: 295 .

Type material examined – One male with red “ Type No. 2807 USNM ”, “Jacksonville Fla”, “Collection Ashmead”. The type was probably designated later, not originally by ASHMEAD. In the USNM .

Other material examined – Two females and two males “Jacksonville Fla”, “Collection Ashmead”. In the USNM .

Comments – ASHMEAD (1881) mentioned that the species was described on the basis of three males and two females. However, we found three males and two females in the USNM collection (see above) .

Biology – Only the sexual generation is known which induces small stem swelling-like galls on Q. laevis WALT. ( = catesbaei MICHX. ). Adults emerge in April ( ASHMEAD 1881).

Distribution – USA: Florida (Jacksonville) ( ASHMEAD 1881).

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Acknowledgements – We express our deepest appreciation to the Archbold Biological Station ( ABS), Florida, and to J. FITZPATRICK and M. DEYRUP for providing laboratory space and support at ABS. C. ABRAHAMSON offered extensive field and technical assistance. We also thank A. MENKE, R. LYON for valuable suggestions during our work in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution ( USNM), Washington, D.C. We thank J. ABRAHAMSON, R. BOWMAN, R. HAMMER, A. JOHNSON, I. KRALICK, R. PEET, R. ROBERTS, P. SCHMALTZER, A. SCHOTZ, C. WINEGARNER, and M. WINEGARNER for field and technical assistance. Support was provided to GM and WGA by Bucknell University’s David Burpee endowment, the Archbold Biological Station, Smithsonian Institution, Canadian National Insect Collection, Ottawa, Canada ( CNCI), American Museum of Natural History ( AMNH), Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund (New York, NY, USA), and NSF grant BSR-9107150 to WGA. Drawings were prepared by E. FOKI and M. BECHTOLD and the specimens of Bassettia obtained from CNCI were mounted and labeled by M. BECHTOLD (Systematic Parasitoid Laboratory, Tanakajd, Hungary). We express our deepest appreciation to both.