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Heteroecus

Heteroecus is a genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are about seven described species in the genus Heteroecus. They are only found on oaks (Quercus) of the section Protobalanus.

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Heteroecus
Heteroecus pacificus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Tribe: Cynipini
Genus: Heteroecus
Kinsey, 1922

Heteroecus is a genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are about seven described species in the genus Heteroecus.123 They are only found on oaks (Quercus) of the section Protobalanus.4

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Heteroecus:

  • Heteroecus crescentus (Lyon)
  • Heteroecus dasydactyli (Ashmead, 1896) – woolly gall wasp
  • Heteroecus devorus (Lyon)
  • Heteroecus lyoni – Lyon's gall wasp
  • Heteroecus melanoderma Kinsey, 1922 – golden gall wasp
  • Heteroecus pacificus (Ashmead, 1896) – beaked spindle gall wasp
  • Heteroecus sanctaeclarae – mushroom gall wasp
References

References

  1. "Heteroecus Kinsey, 1922". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Heteroecus Kinsey, 1922". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. Zimmerman, James R. (2018). "A synopsis of oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Southwestern United States with a key and comments on each of the genera". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 91 (1): 58. doi:10.2317/0022-8567-91.1.58.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Melika, G.; Abrahamson, W. G. (2002). Melika, G.; Thuroczy, C. (eds.). Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini Latreille, 1802). Parasitic Wasps: Evolution, Systematics, Biodiversity and Biological Control. Angroinform. pp. 150–190. ISBN 978-963-502-765-1.
  • Weld, Lewis H. (1959). Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States. Privately printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Ronquist, Fredrik (1999). "Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea". Zoologica Scripta. 28 (1–2): 139–164. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.1999.00022.x.