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Antistrophus Walsh

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family: Cynipidae; Subfamily: Cynipinae; Tribe: Aulacideini)

Antistrophus Walsh, 1869. Type species: Antistrophus lygodesmiaepisum
Walsh, 1869 (= Antistrophus pisum [Ashmead, 1885]).

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

 

Antistrophus bicolor Gillette, 1891 (USA)

Antistrophus chrysothamni (Beutenmüller, 1908) (USA)

Antistrophus jeanae Tooker & Hanks, 2004 (USA)

Antistrophus laciniatus Gillette, 1891 (USA)
 

Antistrophus laurenae Nastasi, 2024 (USA)

Antistrophus meganae Tooker & Hanks, 2004 (USA)

Antistrophus microseris (McCracken & Egbert, 1922) (USA)

Antistrophus minor Gillette, 1891 (USA)

Antistrophus pisum Walsh, 1869 (USA)

Antistrophus rufus Gillette, 1891 (USA)

Antistrophus silphii Gillette, 1891 (USA)

Distribution Nearctic region: USA.
Biology Gall inducers on Asteraceae (Burks, 1979; Nieves-Aldrey, 1994; Tooker et al., 2004, Nastasi et al. 2025).

References

Buffington ML, Forshage M, Liljeblad J, Tang CT, van Noort, S. 2020. World Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera):a key to higher-level groups. Insect Systematics and Diversity 4(4): 1–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixaa003

Burks, B.D. 1979. Superfamily Cynipoidea, pp. 1045- 1107. In K. V. Krombein, P. D. Hurd, Jr., D. R. Smith, and B. D. Burks (eds), Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 1, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Gillette, C.P. 1891. Descriptions of new Cynipidae in the collection of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 3: 191-197.

Nastasi LF, Davis CK, Nieves-Aldrey JL, Buffington ML, Van Noort S, Deans AR. 2025. Review of herb gall wasp tribes (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aylacini sensu lato), with an updated key to cynipid tribes and a checklist of world species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 127(1): 84-117. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.127.1.84

Nieves-Aldrey, J.L. 1994. Revision of the West-European genera of the tribe Aylacini Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3: 175–206.

Ritchie, A.J. 1993. Superfamily Cynipoidea (pp. 521-536). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica Scripta 28:139–164.

Ronquist, F. & Liljeblad, J. 2001. Evolution of the gall wasp–host plant association. Evolution 55: 2503–2522.

Ronquist, F., Nieves-Aldrey, J.-L., Buffington, M. L., Liu, Z., Liljeblad, J., & Nylander, J. A. A. 2015. Phylogeny, Evolution and Classification of Gall Wasps: The Plot Thickens. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0123301. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123301

Tooker, J, Deans, A, Hanks, L. 2004. Description of the Antistrophus rufus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) species complex, including two new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 13: 125-133.

Credits

Photographs © Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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