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Phanacis Förster

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

Phanacis Förster 1860. Type species: 

 

Phanacis carthami Gussakovskij, 1933 (Ukraine, Uzbekistan)

Phanacis caulicola (Hedicke, 1939 (Europe)

Phanacis centaureae Förster, 1860 (Europe)

 

Phanacis chondrillae (Gain, 1894) (Europe)

Phanacis ciceki Azmaz & Katılmış, 2021 (Türkiye)

Phanacis cichorii (Kieffer, 1909 (Asia, Europe)

Phanacis comosae Nieves-Aldrey, 2008 (Spain)

Phanacis cousiniae Diakontschuk, 1988 (Tajikistan, Turkmenistan)

Phanacis crassinervis Diakontschuk, 1980 (Ukraine)

Phanacis dobrogicusŞchiopu, Tataroǧlu & Katilmiş, 2024 (Romania)

Phanacis eryngi (Diakontschuk) (Georgia)

Phanacis eugeniae (Diakontschuk, 1981) (Ukraine)

Phanacis helminthiae (De Stefanii, 1902) (Italy)

Phanacis heraclei (Hedicke, 1923) (Germany)

 

Phanacis heteropappi Diakontschuk, 1988 (Turkmenistan)

 

Phanacis hypochoeridis (Kieffer, 1887) (Europe, Northern Africa; widely introduced
elsewhere inlcuding South Africa)

 

Phanacis irani (Tavakoli and Melika, 2006) (Iran)

Phanacis kiefferi (Cotte, 1915) (France, Spain)

Phanacis lampsanae (Perris, 1873) (Europe)

Phanacis lorestanicus (Tavakoli and Melika, 2006) (Iran)

Phanacis lusitanica (Tavares, 1903) (Europe)

Phanacis maculatusDiakontschuk, 1988 (Tajikistan)

Phanacis neserorum Melika & Prinsloo, 2007 (South Africa)

 

Phanacis phlomidis (Belizin, 1959) (Russia, Ukraine)

Phanacis phoenixopodos (Mayr, 1882) (Europe, North Africa)

Phanacis pilicornis (Thomson, 1877) (Sweden)

Phanacis rufipes Ionescu and Roman, 1959 (Romania)

Phanacis sonchi (De Stefani, 1900) (Mediterranean Europe)

Phanacis strigosa Melika, Stone, and Tavakoli, 2022 (Iran)

Phanacis taraxaci (Ashmead, 1897) (Europe, introduced elsewhere)

Phanacis tavakolii Melika, Stone, and Pujad-Villar, 2022 (Iran)

Phanacis urhani Azmaz & Katılmış, 2021 (Türkiye)

Phanacis urospermi (Kieffer, 1901) (Spain, Portugal, Northern Africa)

Phanacis varians Diakontschuk, 1980 (Ukraine)

Phanacis zwoelferi Nieves-Aldrey, 1995 (Europe)

Phanacis species

References

Melika, G. & Prinsloo, G.L. 2007. Phanacis neserorum sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aylacini): first record of a phytophagous Afrotropical cynipoid gall wasp. African Entomology 15: 185-191.

Şchiopu I, Tataroǧlu M & Katilmiş Y. 2024. New species of gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aulacideini and Phanacidini) inducing galls on plants of the genera Sonchus and Crepis (Asteraceae) in Romania (Dobrogea Province) and notes on their parasitoids. Zootaxa 5471: 33-55. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5471.1.2

van Noort, S, Buffington ML & Forshage, M. 2015. Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). ZooKeys 493: 1-176. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.493.6353

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) and Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum of Natural History) both played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages.


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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