Ufo koreanus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Choi, 2007

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 : 45

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6794009
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scientific name	Ufo koreanus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Choi, 2007
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Ufo koreanus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Choi in Melika et al. (2007): 197, ♀.

Distribution. South Korea ( Melika et al. 2007: 197–198; Lobato-Vila et al. 2020d: 191–192).

Remarks. According to Melika et al. (2012), a paratype of U. koreanus labelled ‘ KOREA, NIAST, 10. Oct. 1997, YPT., June Yeol Choi.’ belongs to U. cerroneuroteri (see Remarks for U. cerroneuroteri ).

Remarks (2). See Remarks 2 for U. cerroneuroteri .

Biology. Reared from galls of Cerroneuroterus yukawamasudai ŏ on Q. variabilis (sect. Cerris ) ( Melika et al. 2007, 2012) and Trichagalma acutissimae ŏ on Q. acutissima and Q. variabilis (sect. Cerris ) ( Lobato-Vila et al. 2020d) ( Table 2).

Lobato-Vila, I., Kang, M., Roca-Cusachs, M., Kim, I., Joon, S. & Pujade-Villar, J. (2020 d) Taxonomic assessment of the inquiline fauna (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini, Ceroptresini) reared from cynipid galls on oaks (Quercus spp.) from South Korea. Zootaxa, 4860 (2), 179 - 198. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4860.2.2

Melika, G., Choi, J. - Y., Pujade-Villar, J., Penzes, Z. & Fulop, D. (2007) A new species of inquiline cynipid of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 from Korea (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 108 (3), 197 - 200. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 1226 - 8615 (08) 60353 - 2

Melika, G., Tang, C. - T., Yang, M. - M., Bihari, P., Bozso, M. & Penzes, Z. (2012) New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini). Zootaxa, 3478 (1), 143 - 163. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3478.1.17

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Cynipidae
Tribe	Cynipini
Genus	Ufo

Ufo koreanus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Choi, 2007

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

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