Synergus quercuslana ( Fitch, 1859 )

Lobato-Vila, Irene & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2021, The genus Synergus Hartig (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) in the New World: a complete taxonomic revision with a key to species, Zootaxa 4906 (1), pp. 1-121 : 85

Synergus quercuslana ( Fitch, 1859)

Cynips quercus-lana Fitch, 1859 . N. Y. Ann. Rep. State Agr. Soc. 18: 814. Type material: USNM.

Andricus lana: Ashmead (1885) . Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 12: 295 [Unjustified emendation for specific name].

Synergus lana: Cresson (1887) . Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc., Supp. Vol.: 180.

Synergus quercuslana: Burks in Krombein et al. (1979) . Smithson. Ins. Press: 1063.

Diagnosis. See Lobato-Vila et al. (2020b: 705)

Distribution. USA: New York ( Fitch 1859) and Iowa ( Gillette 1896).

Biology. Reared from woolly galls of Andricus quercusflocci ( Walsh, 1864) [= A. flocci ( Osten-Sacken, 1865) ] on leaves of white oaks ( Fitch 1859), probably the North American eastern white oak Quercus alba ( Burks 1979) .

Remarks. The type material of Synergus quercuslana was examined and the species was redescribed and illustrated by Lobato-Vila et al. (2020b: 705).