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Buffingtonella Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar

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

Buffingtonella Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019. Type species: Ceroptres politus Ashmead, 1896.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

Buffingtonella buffingtoni Nastasi, 2026
Buffingtonella polita (Ashmead, 1896)
Distribution USA.
Biology The type specimens of B. politus were collected ovipositing into elongate, subfusiform swelling galls on the abaxial leaf veins of Quercus rubra L. (Ashmead 1896, Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar 2019). Based on the morphology of these galls, its true host is probably Polystepha americana (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), as this midge induces highly similar galls on the leaf veins of the same host plant (Nastasi, 2026).

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

Lobato-Vila, I., Pujade-Vilar, J. 2019. Revision of world Ceroptresini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with the description of a new genus and five new species. Zootaxa. 4685: 1–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4685.1.1

Mayr, G. 1881. Die genera der gallenbewohnenden Cynipiden. Jahresberichte der Rossauer Communal Oberrealschule im I. Bezirke20:138

Nastasi, L.F. 2026. Description of the second known species of Buffingtonella Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Ceroptresini) and a possible host association for the genus. Zootaxa, 5810 (2), 395–400. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5810.2.11 .

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

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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