| Periclistus | |
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| A female Periclistus caninae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Subfamily: | Cynipinae |
| Tribe: | Diastrophini |
| Genus: | Periclistus Förster, 1869 |
Periclistus is a genus of gall wasps in the tribe Diastrophini, formerly included in the tribe Synergini.1 There are at least 17 described species in Periclistus.12 Species from this genus are associated with host plants in the rose family, where in a phenomenon called agastoparasitism, they inquiline in the galls of at least four related species, Diastrophus, Diplolepis, Liebelia, and Xestophanes.23
Species
Species in the genus Periclistus include the following:2
- Periclistus arefactus (McCracken & Egbert, 1922)
- Periclistus brandtii (Ratzeburg, 1832)
- Periclistus californicus (Ashmead, 1896)
- Periclistus caninae (Hartig, 1840)
- Periclistus capillatus (Belizin, 1968)
- Periclistus mongolicus (Belizin, 1973)
- Periclistus natalis (Taketani & Yasumatsu, 1973)
- Periclistus obliquus (Provancher, 1888)
- Periclistus orientalis (Pang, Liu & Zhu, 2020)
- Periclistus piceus (Fullaway, 1911)
- Periclistus pirata (Osten-Sacken, 1863)
- Periclistus qinghainensis (Pujade-Villar, Wang, Guo, Chen, 2016)
- Periclistus quinlani (Taketani & Yasumatsu, 1973)
- Periclistus semipiceus (Harris, 1841)
- Periclistus setosus (Wang, Liu & Chen, 2012)
- Periclistus smilacis (Ashmead, 1896)
- Periclistus spinosissimae (Dettmer, 1924)
- Periclistus yorikoae Abe & Ide, 2025
References
References
- Buffington, Matthew L; Forshage, Mattias; Liljeblad, Johan; Tang, Chang-Ti; Van Noort, Simon (2020). "World Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera): a key to higher-level groups". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 4 (4) 1. doi:10.1093/isd/ixaa003.
- van Noort, Simon. "Hymenoptera of the World". WaspWeb. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
- Pang, Yin; Liu, Zhiwei; Su, Cheng-Yuan; Zhu, Dao-Hong (2020). "A new species of Periclistus Foerster, 1869 from China and review of the tribe Diastrophini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae)". ZooKeys (964): 109–126. Bibcode:2020ZooK..964..109P. doi:10.3897/zookeys.964.47441. PMC 7471133. PMID 32939148.