Chilaspis Linnaeus, 1758

Shachar, Einat, Melika, George, Inbar, Moshe & Dorchin, Netta, 2018, The oak gall wasps of Israel (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) - diversity, distribution and life history, Zootaxa 4521 (4), pp. 451-498 : 473

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scientific name	Chilaspis Linnaeus, 1758
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A Western Palearctic genus with two species, C. israeli Sternlicht and C. nitida (Giraud) , inducing catkin and leaf galls on oaks from section Cerris. The asexual and sexual generations are known for both species, developing in detachable leaf galls and catkin galls, respectively. Morphologically, the genus closely resembles Dryocosmus and Plagiotrochus ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2003b; Melika et al. 2010), but its synonymization with Dryocosmus by Ács et al. (2007) was premature and did not incorporate adequately molecular or morphological characters found in other cynipid genera (e.g., Aphelonyx , and Neuroterus ). In a more recent phylogenetic reconstruction, C. nitida and C. israeli formed a strongly-supported monophyletic clade together with Plagiotrochus , and were clearly separated from Dryocosmus ( Stone et al. 2009) .

References

Acs, Z., Melika, G., Penzes, Z., Pujade-Villar, J. & Stone. G. N. (2007) The phylogenetic relationships between Dryocosmus, Chilaspis and allied genera of oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae: Cynipini). Systematic Entomology, 32, 70 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.2006.00351. x

Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum characteribus, dijferentiis, synonymis, lacis. Tomus I. Editio Decima Reformata, Holmiae, 824 pp.

Melika, G., Pujade-Villar, J., Abe, Y., Tang, C. - T., Nicholls, J., Wachi, N., Ide, T., Yang, M. M., Penzes, Z., Csoka, G. & Stone, G. N. (2010) Palaearctic oak gallwasps galling oaks (Quercus) in the section Cerris: re-appraisal of generic limits, with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). Zootaxa, 2470, 1 - 79.

Pujade-Villar, J., Ros-Farre, P. & Melika, G. (2003 b) Revision of the genus Chilaspis Mayr, 1881 (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Cynipidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, New Series, 39 (2), 167 - 178.

Stone, G. N., Hernandez-Lopez, A., Nicholls, J. A., Pierro, E. di., Pujade-Villar, J., Melika, G. & Cook, J. M. (2009) Extreme host plant conservatism during at least 20 million years of host plant pursuit by oak gallwasps. Evolution, 63, 854 - 869. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1558 - 5646.2008.00604. x