Vol. 59, 2020 (update: 2020.02.27; 03.26) A New Genus of Oak Gall Wasp, Striatoandricus Pujade-Villar (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from America with Descriptions of Two New Mexican SpeciesVíctor Cuesta-Porta1,*, Miquel A. Arnedo1,2, David Cibrián-Tovar3, Uriel M. Barrera-Ruiz3, Rosa D. García-Martiñón4, Armando Equihua-Martínez4, Edith G. Estrada-Venegas4, Ricardo Clark-Tapia5, Silvia Romero-Rangel6, and Juli Pujade-Villar1,* doi:10.6620/ZS.2020.59-08
1Universitat
de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Departament de de Biologia
Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Avda. Diagonal 643.
08028-Barcelona (Catalonia). *Correspondence: E-mail:vcuesta@ub.edu
(Cuesta-Porta); jpujade@ub.edu (Pujade-Villar) Received 17 December 2019 / Accepted
22 February 2020 A
new genus of cynipid oak gall wasp, Striatoandricus
Pujade-Villar (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), is described. Striatoandricus gen. nov. includes
four previously described species, Andricus
nievesaldreyi n. comb., A.
georgei n. comb., A. maesi
n. comb., and A. barriosi n.
comb., which induce pubescent leaves or twig galls on Quercus belonging to Quercus section. Two new species
from México are also described: S.
cuixarti Pujade-Villar n. sp. and S. sanchezi Pujade-Villar n. sp. in
Quercus
section. Descriptions of the genus and diagnostic characters, including
DNA sequence data, are presented. This new genus is supported by both
morphological and molecular data. Key words: Andricus, Striatoandricus, America, gall wasps, Quercus. Citation:
Cuesta-Porta V, Arnedo MA, Cibrián-Tovar D, Barrera-Ruiz UM,
García-Martiñón RD, Equihua-Martínez A, Estrada-Venegas EG, Clark-Tapia
R, Romero-Rangel S, Pujade-Villar J. 2020. A new genus of oak gall
wasp, Striatoandricus
Pujade-Villar (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from America with
descriptions of two new Mexican species. Zool Stud 59:8. doi:10.6620/ZS.2020.59-08. |