Andricus megatruncicolus Melika 2008
Description
Andricus megatruncicolus Melika, 2008
Host plants. Israel: Q. boissieri. Iran and Turkey: Q. infectoria.
Life history. Known only from the bud galls of the asexual generation, which are pentagon-shaped, 5–15 mm in diameter and single-chambered (Fig. 21). The galls are broadly attached to the branch and are composed of five flattened units that sheath a spherical mass. Old galls remain on the tree for several years.
Phenology. Galls develop over the summer and mature in September, adults emerge in the following spring (Tavakoli et al. 2008).
Distribution. Israel: Very rare, found only twice in one location on Mt. Hermon at 1780 m.a.s.l. Elsewhere: Iran and Turkey.
Comments. The species epithet reflects the close similarity of the adults and galls of the asexual generation to those of Andricus truncicolus (Giraud), and the larger size of the gall. The extreme rarity of purely asexual lifecycles in oak gallwasps (Stone et al. 2002) suggests that A. megatruncicolus has a sexual generation which probably develops on oaks from section Cerris.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cynipidae
- Genus
- Andricus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Melika
- Species
- megatruncicolus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Andricus megatruncicolus Melika, 2008 sec. Shachar, Melika, Inbar & Dorchin, 2018
References
- Tavakoli, M., Melika, G., Sadeghi, S. E., Penzes, Z., Assareh, M. A., Atkinson, R., Bechtold, M., Miko, I., Zargaran, M. R., Aligolizade, D., Barimani, H., Bihari, P., Pirozi, F., Fulop, D., Somogyi, K., Challis, R., Preuss, S., Nicholls, J. & Stone, G. N. (2008) New species of oak gallwaps from Iran (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). Zootaxa, 1699, 1 - 64.
- Stone, G. N., Schonrogge, K., Atkinson, R. J., Bellido, D. & Pujade-Villar, J. (2002) The population biology of oak gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Annual Review of Entomology, 47, 633 - 668. https: // doi. org / 10.1146 / annurev. ento. 47.091201.145247