Biorhiza Westwood, 1840

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 : 470-471

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5949923
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scientific name	Biorhiza Westwood, 1840
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A Holarctic genus with six species, four of which in the Nearctic Region ( Melika & Abrahamson 2002), one - B. nawai (Ashmead) in the Eastern Palaearctic, and another - B. pallida in the Western Palaearctic. All species are

associated with oaks of section Quercus , on which the asexual generation develops in root galls and the sexual generation in bud galls ( Melika 2006b).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Cynipidae

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