Bassettia

Bassettia is a genus of gall wasps found in North America.

Bassettia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Cynipidae
Tribe:	Cynipini
Genus:	Bassettia Ashmead, 1887
Type species
Bassettia floridana Ashmead, 1887

Taxonomic history

This genus was circumscribed by William Harris Ashmead in 1887. Ashmead named the genus after "Mr. H. F. Bassett, of Waterbury, Conn., who has done so much towards advancing our knowledge of these intricate Hymenopters". Two species were included in the genus's initial circumscription: B. floridana, described in the same work, and B. tenuicornis.[1] Bassett had described the latter species in 1881, placing it in the genus Cynips.[2]

Ashmead later designated B. floridana as the genus's type species.[3][4]

Species

A 2007 revision of the genus by G. Melika and W. G. Abrahamson recognizes the following eight species in this genus:[4]

• Bassettia archboldi Melika & Abrahamson, 2007 — Florida
• Bassettia floridana Ashmead, 1887 — Connecticut, Florida
• Bassettia gemmae Ashmead, 1896 — Missouri, Illinois, District of Columbia
• Bassettia ligni Kinsey, 1922 — California, Oregon
• Bassettia pallida Ashmead, 1896 — Georgia, Florida
• Bassettia tenuana Weld, 1921 — New Mexico
• Bassettia virginiana Melika & Abrahamson, 2007 — Virginia
• Bassettia weldi Melika & Abrahamson, 2007 — Arizona

Subsequent changes include the addition of:

• Bassettia caulicola Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey, 2010 — Panama[5]

Former species

Melika and Abrahamson transferred or restored these species from Bassettia to Callirhytis Foerster, 1869 in 2002.[6][4] They had been included in Weld's 1951 taxonomy of Bassettia.[7]

• Callirhytis aquaticae Ashmead, 1887
• Callirhytis ceropteroides Bassett, 1900
• Callirhytis herberti (Weld, 1926)
• Callirhytis quercuscatesbaei Ashmead, 1881

References

1. Ashmead, William H. (1887). "On the Cynipidous Galls of Florida, with Descriptions of New Species and Synopses of the Described Species of North America". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 14: 146–147. JSTOR 25076487.
2. Bassett, H. F. (1881). "New Cynipidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 13 (5): 92–93. doi:10.4039/Ent1392-5.
3. Ashmead, William H. (1903). "Classification of the Gall-Wasps and the Parasitic Cynipoids, or the Superfamily Cynipoidea III". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 10 (324): 155. doi:10.1155/1903/83423.
4. Melika, G.; Abrahamson, W. G. (2007). "Review of the nearctic gallwasp species of the genus Bassettia Ashmead, 1887, with description of new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 53 (2): 131–148.
5. Medianero, E.; Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (2010). "Description of the first Neotropical species of Bassettia Ashmead, 1887 (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) from Panama". Graellsia. 66 (2): 213. doi:10.3989/graellsia.2010.v66.029.
6. Melika, George; Abrahamson, Warren G. (2002). "Review of the World Genera of Oak Cynipid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)". In Melika, George; Thuróczy, Csaba (eds.). Parasitic Wasps: Evolution, Systematics, Biodiversity and Biological Control. Budapest: Agroinform. pp. 163–165. ISBN 978-963-502-765-1.
7. Weld, L. H. (1951). "Superfamily Cynipoidea". In Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, Karl V.; Townes, Henry K. (eds.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico: Synoptic Catalog. Department of Agriculture: Agriculture Monograph. 2. Washington: United States Printing Office. pp. 643–644.

Further reading

• Ashmead, William H. (1896). "Descriptions of new cynipidous Galls and Gall-Wasps in the United States National Museum". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 19 (1102): 128.
• Burks, B. D. (1979). "Superfamily Cynipoidea". In Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Jr., Paul D.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.). Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 1096–1097.
• von Dalla Torre, K. W.; Kieffer, J. J. (1902). "Genus Bassettia, Ashmead". Hymenoptera: Fam. Cynipidæ. Genera Insectorum. 10. Bruxelles: P. Wytsman. pp. 71–72.
• von Dalla Torre, K. W.; Kieffer, J. J. (1910). "Gen. Bassettia Ashm.". Cynipidae. Das Tierrich. 24. Berlin: R. Friedländer und Sohn. pp. 648–649.
• Kinsey, Alfred C. (1922). "New Pacific Coast Cynipidæ (Hymenoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 46 (3): 291–292. hdl:2246/1962.
• Thompson, Millett Taylor (1915). An Illustrated Catalogue of American Insect Galls. Nassau, Rensselaer Co., NY. p. 36.
• Weld, Lewis H. (1921). "American gallflies of the family Cynipidae producing subterranean galls on oak". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 59 (2368): 232–234. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.59-2368.187.