Biology:Antistrophus

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Antistrophus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Genus: Antistrophus
Walsh, 1869

Antistrophus is a genus of about 10 species of gall wasps.[1][2] The genus is only known from the Nearctic.[1] Species of Antistrophus induce galls on plant species in four Asteraceae genera: Silphium, Lygodesmia, Chrysothamnus, and Microseris .[1][3][4][5][6]

The genus was first named and described by Benjamin Walsh in 1869.[1][2]

This genus includes the following species:[1][2]

  • Antistrophus bicolor Gillette, 1891
  • Antistrophus chrysothamni Beutenmuller, 1908
  • Antistrophus jeanae Tooker and Hanks, 2004
  • Antistrophus laciniatus Gillette, 1891
  • Antistrophus lygodesmiaepisum Walsh, 1869
  • Antistrophus meganae Tooker and Hanks, 2004
  • Antistrophus minor Gillette, 1891
  • Antistrophus microseris McCracken and Egbert, 1922
  • Antistrophus rufus Gillette, 1891
  • Antistrophus silphii Gillette, 1891

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Tooker, John F.; Deans, Andrew R.; Hanks, Lawrence M. (2004). "Description of the Antistrophus rufus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) species complex, including two new species". Journal of Hymenoptera Research 13: 125–133. http://www.life.illinois.edu/hanks/pdfs/Tooker%20et%20al%202004.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Poole, R.W. & P. Gentili, 1996. Hymenoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Raphidioptera, Trichoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Vol 2. ISBN:1-889002-02-X
  3. Weld, Lewis Hart. (1959) Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States. Ann Arbor, Mich.
  4. Brandhors, Carl Theodore (1964). "Notes on Antistrophus pisum (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) and Three Types of Galls Induced by it on Lygodesmia juncea" (in en). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 57 (1): 74–77. doi:10.1093/aesa/57.1.74. ISSN 1938-2901. https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/aesa/57.1.74. 
  5. Beutenmuller, William (1908). "A new Cynipid from Arizona". Journal of the New York Entomological Society 16: 45. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33455878. 
  6. McCracken, Isabel; Egbert, Dorothy (1922). "California gall-making Cynipidae, with descriptions of new species". Stanford University Publications, University Series, Biological Sciences 3 (1): 5–70. 

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