A new genus of cynipid oak gallwasp-Cyclocynips Melika, Tang, & Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with two new species--C. uberis and C. tumorvirgae--reared from galls on oaks of the Quercus subgenus Cyclobalanopsis is described from Taiwan. Descriptions of asexual generation adults and their diagnostic characters are presented. The likelihood of yet undiscovered sexual generations a...

The bee genus Pseudoanthidium is represented by nine species in Europe. Of these species, nanum the most widespread, occurs mainly xerothermic open habitats and creates nests various cavity types. In this study, we provide information on nest structure of reed stalks oak galls about its parasitic species. We first report P. as a host Xylophrurus augustus (Ichneumonidae). biology much rarer rela...

The fig tree, Ficus curtipes, hosts an obligate pollinating wasp, an undescribed Eupristina sp., but can also be pollinated by two inquiline (living in the burrow, nest, gall, or other habitation of another animal) wasps, Diaziella yangi and an undescribed Lipothymus sp. The two inquilines are unable to independently induce galls and depend on the galls induced by the obligate pollinator for re...

We report on the occurrence of ant Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger, 1965 in two sites Northern and Eastern Turkey. is a workerless inquiline living colonies L. acervorum (Fabricius, 1793) so far known from various parts Central Europe. Our findings greatly increase range this small rare ant.

Live oak (Quercus virginiana Mill.) trees are hosts to a complex of gall making arthropods. However, the bullet galls produced by the asexual generation of the cynipid Disholcaspis quercuscirens (Ashmead) can esthetically and physically damage nursery and street trees, and thus reduce tree value. We sought to describe the unknown sexual generation of D. quercusvirens, describe the development o...

Abstract Several records of associated fauna, including parasitoids, inquilines, predators, and successors, have been reported by insect gall inventories in Brazilian restingas. Although most guilds are well established, inquilines frequently misinterpreted. In this paper, the inquilinous fauna galls is revised based on five criteria: food habit; coexistence with inducer; modification tissues o...