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Cynipid gall wasps [PDF]

Current Biology, 2018
Egan et al. introduce the reader to gall wasps, including a description of their life cycle and complex ecological interactions with host plants and natural enemies.
Scott P, Egan, Glen R, Hood, Ellen O, Martinson, James R, Ott   +3 more
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First Record and Damage Ratio of the Asian Chestnut Gall Wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu, 1951 (Hemiptera: Cynipidae) in Samsun Province of Turkey

Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences, 2022
The Asian chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) is a critical pest threatening chestnut cultivation. Chestnut gall wasp causes yield losses by deforming the buds of the infected trees.
Burak Akyüz, I. Saruhan, Ü. Serdar
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of Eucalyptus Clones for Susceptibility to The Gall Wasp Letocybe invasa Fisher and La Salle

Indian Journal of Entomology, 2022
This study investigates the variation among Eucalyptus clones for incidence of gall wasp (Letocybe invasa) and relative changes in biochemical parameters.
Akashdeep Singh, G. Dhillon, N. Kaur, K. Sangha   +3 more
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The Erythrina Gall Wasp Quadrastichus erythrinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Eulophidae): Invasion History, Ecology, Infestation and Management

Forests, 2021
The Erythrina gall wasp Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is an invasive insect that induces galls on coral trees (species of Erythrina, Fabaceae) in urban and suburban landscapes.
Sheng-Feng Lin, G. Tung, Man‐Miao Yang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Defensive patterns of chestnut genotypes (Castanea spp.) against the gall wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Plants draw from various genetically controlled defenses to protect against herbivores and pathogens. The efficacy of alternative defenses can vary with the biology and phylogeny of the enemy. Dryocosmus kuriphilus, an invasive gall maker native to China,
M. Lombardero, M. Ayres, Pedro Álvarez-Álvarez, Fernando Castedo‐Dorado   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Phylogenomic Analysis of Protein-Coding Genes Resolves Complex Gall Wasp Relationships

bioRxiv, 2022
The phylogeny of gall wasps (Cynipidae) and their parasitic relatives has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The family is now widely recognized to fall into thirteen natural lineages, designated tribes, but the relationships among them ...
J. Hearn, Erik Gobbo, J. Nieves‐Aldrey, A. Branca, J. Nicholls, Georgios D. Koutsovoulos, N. Lartillot, G. Stone, F. Ronquist   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Composition and Ecology of the Insect Community and Microbiota in Galls on a Hawkweed Hieracium × robustum Fries, 1848

Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2022
The gall wasp Aulacidea hieracii L., 1758 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) forms a stem gall on the hawkweed Hieracium × robustum Fries, 1848 (Asteraceae), a weedy herb that grows in the steppe biotopes of Eurasia.
Matvey I. Nikelshparg, Daria L. Basalaeva, Elena V. Glinskaya, Vasily V. Anikin   +3 more
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Interactions Between Figs and Gall-Inducing Fig Wasps: Adaptations, Constraints, and Unanswered Questions

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The ancient interaction between figs (Ficus, Moraceae) and their pollinating fig wasps is an unusual example of a mutualism between plants and gall-inducing insects.
Renee M. Borges
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Andricus pseudocecconii sp. nova (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Iran [PDF]

نامه انجمن حشره‌شناسی ایران, 2022
A new species of oak gall wasp, Andricus pseudocecconii Melika, Tavakoli & Stone, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini) is described. Descriptions, diagnoses, biology, and host associations for the new species are given.
George Melika, James A. Nicholls, Majid Tavakoli, Seyed Ebrahim Sadeghi, Graham N. Stone   +4 more
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First report on the gall wasp Ophelimus near migdanorum (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) and its parasitoid Closterocerus chamaeleon (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) in Eucalyptus globulus in Bogotá, Colombia. [PDF]

Zookeys, 2020
Ophelimus near migdanorum, a foliage gall wasp-inducer of Eucalyptus, is recorded for the first time in Colombia, infesting both mature ornamental trees of Eucalyptus globulus (Labill.) and monoculture plantations in the periurban forest in the city of ...
Pinzón-Florián O.
europepmc   +2 more sources