Saphonecrus lithocarpi Pujade-Villar, Guo, Wang & Chen, 2015

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 : 37

Saphonecrus lithocarpi Pujade-Villar, Guo, Wang & Chen, 2015

Saphonecrus lithocarpi Pujade-Villar, Guo, Wang & Chen in Pujade-Villar et al. (2015): 214, ♀ [♂ in Pujade-Villar et al. (2017b: 63) ].

Saphonecrus chinensis Tang & Schwéger in Schwéger et al. (2015b): 13, ♀ & ♂ [syn. in Pujade-Villar et al. (2017b: 63)]

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Yunnan Provinces) (Pujade-Villar et al. 2015: 215, 217; Schwéger et al. 2015b: 13, 16)

Biology. Reared from multilocular, integral swelling galls at the base of the leaf midrib on Lithocarpus harlandii (Hance ex Walpers) Rehder (Pujade-Villar et al. 2015) and round bud galls on L. fenestratus ( Schwéger et al. 2015b) . The gall inducers have yet to be confirmed.