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Dryocosmus pentagonalis Melika & Tang, 2011

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 : 24

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1

publication LSID

 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:20804225-E0CE-420A-B960-4831EE3A1E01

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6793793

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scientific name

 Dryocosmus pentagonalis Melika & Tang, 2011
status

 

Dryocosmus pentagonalis Melika & Tang, 2011

Dryocosmus pentagonalis Melika & Tang in Melika et al. (2011: 3), ♂ ♀.

Distribution. Taiwan ( Melika et al. 2011: 6).

Biology. Only the sexual generation has been described, which induces stalked spindle-shaped galls on the buds, catkins, and young leaves of Castanopsis carlesii ( Table 1; Melika et al. 2011).

Melika, G., Tang, C. - T., Nicholls, J., Yang, M. - M. & Stone, G. N. (2011) Four new species of Dryocosmus gallwasps from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini). ISRN Zoology, 2011, 725180. https: // doi. org / 10.5402 / 2011 / 725180

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Cynipidae

Tribe

Cynipini

Genus

Dryocosmus

Specimens