Antistrophus

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]

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

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. Tooker, John F.; Deans, Andrew R.; Hanks, Lawrence M. (2004). "Description of the Antistrophus rufus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) species complex, including two new species" (PDF). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 13: 125–133.
  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". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 57 (1): 74–77. doi:10.1093/aesa/57.1.74. ISSN 1938-2901.
  5. Beutenmuller, William (1908). "A new Cynipid from Arizona". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 16: 45.
  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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