Ceroptres
| Ceroptres | |
|---|---|
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| Ceroptres clavicornis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Subfamily: | Cynipinae |
| Tribe: | Ceroptresini |
| Genus: | Ceroptres Hartig, 1840 |
Ceroptres is a genus of gall wasp. Most of its species are found in North America, and most are inquilines, meaning it oviposits its eggs in a host gall. These host galls are mostly induced by other gall wasps, but some species of Ceroptres use the galls of gall midges.
Species
Ceroptres contains at least 43 species, including:
- Ceroptres anansii Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Anansi
- Ceroptres anzui Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Anzû
- Ceroptres bruti Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Brutus
- Ceroptres catesbaei Ashmead, 1885
- Ceroptres clavicornis Hartig, 1840
- Ceroptres confertus (McCracken & Egbert, 1922)
- Ceroptres cornigera Melika & Buss, 2002
- Ceroptres curupira Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Curupira
- Ceroptres daleki Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for daleks from Doctor Who
- Ceroptres dandoi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Edward Dando
- Ceroptres demerzelae Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Demerzel
- Ceroptres ensiger (Walsh, 1864)
- Ceroptres frondosae Ashmead, 1896
- Ceroptres iktomii Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Iktomi
- Ceroptres jabbai Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars
- Ceroptres jarethi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Ceroptres junquerasi Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019
- Ceroptres lanigerae Ashmead, 1885
- Ceroptres lenis Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019
- Ceroptres lokii Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Loki
- Ceroptres lupini Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Arsène Lupin
- Ceroptres mallowi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Hober Mallow
- Ceroptres mexicanus Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019
- Ceroptres minutissimi Ashmead, 1885
- Ceroptres montensis Weld, 1957
- Ceroptres nigricrus Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019
- Ceroptres petiolicola (Osten Sacken, 1861)
- Ceroptres pisum (Osten Sacken, 1861)
- Ceroptres promethei Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Prometheus
- Ceroptres quadratifacies Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2019
- Ceroptres rufiventris Ashmead, 1896
- Ceroptres sandiegoae Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Carmen Sandiego
- Ceroptres selinae Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Selina Kyle
- Ceroptres snellingi Lyon, 1996
- Ceroptres soloi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Han Solo
- Ceroptres songae Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for River Song
- Ceroptres swiperi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Swiper from Dora the Explorer
- Ceroptres thrymi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Thrym
- Ceroptres tikoloshei Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Tikoloshe
- Ceroptres zorroi Nastasi, Smith, & Davis, 2024
- Named for Zorro
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Nastasi, Louis F.; Smith, Cecil N.; Davis, Charles K.; Ward, Anna K.G.; Brown, Guerin; Zhang, Y. Miles; Rollins, Shannon; Friesen, Chris; Tribull, Carly M.; Forbes, Andrew A.; Deans, Andrew R. (2024-09-17). "One must imagine Sisyphus happy: Integrative taxonomic characterization of 22 new Ceroptres species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Ceroptresini)". Zootaxa. 5508 (1): 1–63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5508.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 39646600.
- ↑ Lobato-Vila, Irene; Pujade-Villar, Juli (2019-10-11). "Revision of world Ceroptresini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with the description of a new genus and five new species". Zootaxa. 4685 (1): 1–67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4685.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31719371.
- ↑ Nastasi, Louis F.; Buffington, Matthew L.; Davis, Charles K.; Deans, Andrew R. (2024-03-25). "Key to the North American tribes and genera of herb, rose, bramble, and inquiline gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae sensu lato)". ZooKeys (1196): 177–207. Bibcode:2024ZooK.1196..177N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1196.118460. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 10985401. PMID 38566620.
- 1 2 3 4 Funnell, Rachael (2024-09-18). "Jabba The Hutt Wasp Among 22 New Species Of Parasitic Gall Raiders". IFLScience. Retrieved 2024-10-10.