Saphonecrus fabris Pujade-Villar, Wang, Guo & Chen, 2014

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 : 36

Saphonecrus fabris Pujade-Villar, Wang, Guo & Chen, 2014

Saphonecrus fabris Pujade-Villar, Wang, Guo & Chen in Pujade-Villar et al. (2014d): 420 , ♀ [♂ in Lobato-Vila et al. (2021b: 11) ].

Distribution. China (Zhejiang Province) ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2014d: 420, 422; Lobato-Vila et al. 2021b: 11).

Remarks. Pujade-Villar et al. (2014d) state that S. fabris was reared from galls of Andricus flavus on Q. fabri (sect. Quercus ). The gall inducer adults presumed to have emerged from these galls were confirmed to be A. mairei ( Kieffer, 1906) (= A. flavus ). However, the galls mentioned in Pujade-Villar et al. (2014d) do not correspond to A. mairei , but to an undetermined gall wasp ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2020c). Furthermore, the host plant of A. mairei is not Q. fabri , but Q. serrata ( Pujade-Villar et al. 2020c) . According to the new material examined in Lobato-Vila et al. (2021b) and to the determination conflict addressed by Pujade-Villar et al. (2020c), the biology of S. fabris (at least of its type material) remains uncertain.

Biology. Uncertain. According to Lobato-Vila et al. (2021b), reared from galls on the midrib of leaves of Q. stewardiana A. Camus and Q. ciliaris Huang & Chang (sect. Cyclobalanopsis ). The gall inducer has yet to be confirmed.