Biology:Trichoteras

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Short description: Genus of wasps

Trichoteras
Trichoteras coquilletti (formerly Andricus coquilletti) - little oak-apple gall wasp - iNaturalist Photo 135823128, (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda.jpg
Oak-apple gall produced by Trichoteras coquilletti
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Subfamily: Cynipinae
Tribe: Cynipini
Genus: Trichoteras
Ashmead, 1897

Trichoteras is a genus of gall-inducing Hymenopteran that has several species formerly classed as Andricus. Trichoteras characteristics include antennae with 10 flagellomeres.[1] An entomologist writing in 2018 stated that "is questionable that Heteroecus and Trichoteras should be synonymized with Andricus" in regard to a proposed taxonomic reorganization of 2002.[1] Ronald A. Russo in Plant Galls of the Western United States moves species like the golden oak apple wasp from Andricus to Trichoteras, while acknowledging the previously accepted binomials. William Harris Ashmead first defined this genus in 1897.[2]

List of Trichoteras species:

  • Trichoteras burnetti (formerly Andricus burnetti) - woolly gall wasp[3]
  • Trichoteras coquilletti (formerly Andricus coquilletti) - little oak-apple gall wasp[4]
  • Trichoteras frondeum (formerly Andricus frondeum) - leafy bud gall wasp[5]
  • Trichoteras rotundula (formerly Andricus rotundula) - little urn gall wasp[4]
  • Trichoteras tubifaciens (formerly Andricus tubifaciens) - crystalline tube gall wasp[6]
  • Trichoteras vacciniifoliae (formerly Andricus vacciniifoliae) - golden oak-apple gall wasp[5]

References

Sources

Wikidata ☰ Q110918416 entry