Dryocosmus Giraud, 1859

Shachar, Einat, Melika, George, Inbar, Moshe & Dorchin, Netta, 2018, The oak gall wasps of Israel (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) - diversity, distribution and life history, Zootaxa 4521 (4), pp. 451-498 : 474

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A4FD6137-25B0-43D5-845B-B4FDF4E9F5D7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5949951

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC1F87FE-FFF3-FF91-FF61-FA21FB7AB184

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Plazi

scientific name

Dryocosmus Giraud, 1859
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Dryocosmus Giraud, 1859 View in CoL View at ENA

A Holarctic genus of 29 species, inducing leaf, twig, shoot and bud galls on oaks from sections Cerris; Castanea , and Chrysolepis . Most species are known from both generations. Adults resemble those of Chilaspis but differ from them in certain morphological characters. This is a paraphyletic genus, with seven species in the Western Palaearctic ( Cerasa et al. 2018) and many species in the Eastern Palaearctic ( Tang et al. 2016a) and the Nearctic Regions ( Melika & Abrahamson 2002). Two species are known from Israel on Q. ithaburensis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Cynipidae

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