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Diastrophus brasiliensis Oliveira & Melo

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

Diastrophus brasiliensis Oliveira & Melo, 2025.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

Distribution Brazil.
Biology Associated with Rosaceae, as gall-inducer in stems of Rubus brasiliensis Mart. and R. sellowii Cham. & Schlitdl.

References

Oliveira, Allan & Melo, Gabriel. 2025. First record of Cynipidae in Brazil: A new species of gall wasp of the genus Diastrophus Hartig (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Diastrophini). Zootaxa 5686: 503-516. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.4.3

Credits

Photographs © Allan Oliveira & Gabriel Melo.


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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