Cynips staminobia Kovalev, 1965

IRENE LOBATO-VILA, ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA, GEORGE MELIKA, GRAHAM N. STONE, CHANGTI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, ZHIQIANG FANG, YING ZHU, YIPING WANG, SUNGHOON JUNG, JAMES A. NICHOLLS & JULI PUJADE-VILLAR, 2022, A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini), Zootaxa 5161 (1), pp. 1-71 : 48

Cynips staminobia Kovalev, 1965 Incertae sedis

Cynips staminobia Kovalev, 1965: 36 , ♂ ♀.

Distribution. Russian Far East ( Kovalev 1965: 37).

Remarks. Uncertain status. The types must be found and revised.

Remarks (2). This was the only Cynips mentioned for the EP and the only species recorded to induce galls on catkins (all other Cynips sexual generations induce galls in buds, rarely in leaves). Therefore, it is likely that this species belongs to another genus (maybe Dryocosmus in terms of host plant association and gall location), so the types must be found and revised.

Biology. Only the sexual generation has been described, which induces catkin galls on Q. mongolica (sect. Quercus ) ( Kovalev 1965).