Biology:Besbicus (wasp)

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Short description: Genus of wasps

Besbicus
Fuzzy-Gall Wasp imported from iNaturalist photo 319010627 on 25 October 2023.jpg
Galls produced by Besbicus conspicuus, Sonoma County, California, 2023
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Subfamily: Cynipinae
Tribe: Cynipini
Genus: Besbicus
(Kinsey, 1929)
Phylogenetic origins in Besbicus

Besbicus is a genus of gall-inducing cynipid wasp found in North America.[1] Several species now classed as Besbicus were formerly considered to be a part of the genus Cynips.[2][3] Besbicus was originally described as a subgenus by Alfred Kinsey in 1929.[4] Circa 2010, one group of entomologists noted that it was "possible that the nearctic genera Antron and Besbicus were erroneously synonymized to Cynips".[5]

Taxonomy

Besbicus contains the following species:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Genus Besbicus" (in en-US). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/334108-Besbicus. 
  2. Russo, Ronald A. (2021) (in en-us). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. pp. 123–125. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691213408/html. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Joyce Gross Photography: California Oak Galls Created by Cynipid Wasps". https://joycegross.com/galls_ca_oak.php. 
  4. Kinsey, Alfred Charles. "The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species/Part II. Systematic Data - Wikisource, the free online library" (in en). https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gall_Wasp_Genus_Cynips:_A_Study_in_the_Origin_of_Species/Part_II._Systematic_Data. 
  5. Pujade-Villar, J.; Romero-Rangel, S.; ChagoyáN-GarcíA, C.; Equihua-MartíNez, A.; Estrada-Venegas, E. G.; Melika, G. (2010-01-13). "A new genus of oak gallwasps, Kinseyella Pujade-Villar & Melika, with a description of a new species from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)". Zootaxa 2335 (1): 16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2335.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2335.1.2. 
  6. Evans, David (February 1967). "THE BISEXUAL AND AGAMIC GENERATIONS OF BESBICUS MIRABILIS (HYMENOPTERA: CYNIPIDAE), AND THEIR ASSOCIATE INSECTS" (in en). The Canadian Entomologist 99 (2): 187–196. doi:10.4039/Ent99187-2. ISSN 0008-347X. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0008347X00057953/type/journal_article. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q123376328 entry