Biology:Cynipini

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Short description: Tribe of wasps

Cynipini
Cynips sp beentree.jpg
Cynips sp.
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Subfamily: Cynipinae
Tribe: Cynipini
Leach, 1815

Cynipini is a tribe of gall wasps. These insects induce galls in plants of the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.[1] They are known commonly as the oak gall wasps.[2] It is the largest cynipid tribe, with about 936[3] to 1000[2] recognized species, most of which are associated with oaks.[2] The tribe is mainly native to the Holarctic.[3]

Cynipini wasps can act as ecosystem engineers. Their galls can become hosts of inquilines, and the wasps themselves are hosts to parasitoids.[4]

Most of these wasps undergo cyclical parthenogenesis, sometimes reproducing sexually, and sometimes producing young without fertilization.[2] [5]

Genera

Gall induced on Pyrenean oak Quercus pyrenaica by Andricus kollari
Gall induced by Callirhytis quercuspunctata on oak

References

  1. Nieves-Aldrey, J. L., et al. (2009). Revision and phylogenetics of the genus Paraulax Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) with biological notes and description of a new tribe, a new genus, and five new species. Zootaxa 2200 1-40.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Melika, G., et al. (2013). A new genus of oak gallwasp, Cyclocynips Melika, Tang & Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan. Zootaxa 3630(3), 534-48.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Medianero, E. and J. L. Nieves-Aldrey. (2013). Barucynips panamensis, a new genus and species of oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) from Panama, and description of one new species of Coffeikokkos. ZooKeys (277), 25-46.
  4. Hayward, Alex; Stone, Graham (2005-10-05). "Oak gall wasp communities: Evolution and ecology". Basic and Applied Ecology 6 (5): 435–443. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2005.07.003. 
  5. Stone, Graham N.; Schönrogge, Karsten; Atkinson, Rachel J.; Bellido, David; Pujade-Villar, Juli (January 2002). "The Population Biology of Oak Gall Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)". Annual Review of Entomology 47 (1): 633–668. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145247. PMID 11729087. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145247. Retrieved 2021-09-13. 
  6. Melika, G.; Abrahamson, W. G. (2007). "Review of the nearctic gallwasp species of the genus Bassettia Ashmead, 1887, with description of new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)". Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53 (2): 131–148. http://actazool.nhmus.hu/53/2/azh53_2_Melika.pdf. 
  7. Pujade-Villar, J., et al. (2012). A new genus of oak gallwasp, Coffeikokkos Pujade-Villar & Melika, gen. n., with a description of a new species from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Zookeys (168), 19–29.
  8. Cuesta-Porta, Victor; Melika, George; Nicholls, James A.; Stone, Graham N.; Pujade-Villar, Juli (2023-11-07). "Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Feron Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including the description of six new species". Zootaxa 5366 (1): 1–174. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5366.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5366.1.1. 
  9.  , Wikidata Q110301856
  10. Cuesta-Porta, Victor; Arnedo, Miquel A.; Cibrian-Tovar, David; Barrera-Ruiz, Uriel M.; Garcia-Martinon, Rosa D.; Equihua-Martinez, Armando; Estrada-Venegas, Edith; Clark-Tapia, Ricardo et al. (2020). "A new genus of oak gall wasp, Striatoandricus Pujade-Villar (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from America with descriptions of two new Mexican species". Zoological Studies 59 (59): e8. doi:10.6620/ZS.2020.59-08. PMID 32760454. 

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