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Xestophanes Förster

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

Xestophanes Förster, 1869.

ClassificationCynipoidea keys

  Xestophanes brevitarsis (Thomson, 1877)
 

Xestophanes caspiana Liu, 2004 (Azerbaijan)

  Xestophanes potentillae (Retzius, 1773)
Distribution Nearctic, Palaearctic (including North Africa) regions.
Biology Associated with Rosaceae, as gall-inducers (Buffington et al. 2020).

References

Bassett, H. F. 1881. New Species of Cynipidae. The Canadian Entomologist. 13: 51–53. doi:10.4039/Ent1351-3.

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

Davis, CK, Nastasi LF, Deans AR. 2024. Description of two new species of Diastrophus Hartig, 1840 from Taiwan, Diastrophus renai and D. wushei (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Diastrophini). Zootaxa 5541 (3): 367–374. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.7

Davis, CK, Nastasi, LF, Deans, AR. 2025. First record of the genus Xestophanes Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in northern Africa. Specimen 59: 1-2. https://doi.org/10.56222/28166531.2025.59

Mayr, G. 1881. Die genera der gallenbewohnenden Cynipiden. Jahresberichte der Rossauer Communal Oberrealschule im I. Bezirke 20:138.

Pang Y, Liu Z, Su C-Y, Zhu D-H. 2020. A new species of Periclistus Foerster, 1869 from China and review of the tribe Diastrophini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae). ZooKeys 964: 109-126. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.964.47441.

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 © Charles Davis (Frost Entomological Museum).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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