Biology:Diplolepis ignota
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| Grand Mesa National Forest, 2020 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Diplolepididae |
| Genus: | Diplolepis |
| Species: | D. ignota
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| Binomial name | |
| Diplolepis ignota (Osten Sacken, 1863)
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Diplolepis ignota is a species of gall wasp (Cynipidae). Galls in which the larvae live and feed are formed on the leaves of several species of wild rose (Rosa).[1][2][3] Individual galls are single-chambered and spherical, but multiple galls can coalesce into irregularly rounded galls.[2][3]
Range
This species has been reported throughout most of the continental United States,[4][1][3] and in Canada from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.[2][5][6]
Ecology
Diplolepis ignota galls have been reported from Rosa arkansana, R. blanda, R. carolina, R. virginiana, and R. nitida.[2][3] Gall initiation typically occurs in August, and the galls remain attached to their hosts, with adults emerging from the galls the following summer.[2] Inquilines and parasitoids of the larvae include species of Periclistus (Cynipidae), Aprostocetus (Eulophidae), Eurytoma (Eurytomidae), and Orthopelma (Ichneumonidae).[2]
Taxonomy
This species was first described as Rhodites ignota by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken in 1863.[4] It was subsequently determined that the genus name Diplolepis had priority over Rhodites.[7] Recent studies have shown that this species is very closely related to Diplolepis nebulosa and D. variabilis.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 , Wikidata Q100986199
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 , Wikidata Q100878188
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 , pp. 45, Wikidata Q51493139
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 , Wikidata Q109564823
- ↑ "Diplolepis ignota" (in en). 18 October 2020. https://inaturalist.ca/observations/62907027.
- ↑ "Diplolepis ignota" (in en). 7 October 2020. https://inaturalist.ca/observations/61916262.
- ↑ , Wikidata Q103872955
- ↑ , Wikidata Q99634248
Wikidata ☰ Q100878355 entry
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