[HTML][HTML] A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini …

I Lobato-Vila, A Sala-Nishikawa, G Melika, GN Stone… - Zootaxa, 2022 - biotaxa.org
Recent years have seen rapid advances in the study of Fagaceae-associated gall wasps
(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Eastern Palaearctic and the Oriental (EPO) regions, for …

Host niches and defensive extended phenotypes structure parasitoid wasp communities

R Bailey, K Schönrogge, JM Cook, G Melika… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Oak galls are spectacular extended phenotypes of gallwasp genes in host oak tissues and
have evolved complex morphologies that serve, in part, to exclude parasitoid natural …

Extreme host plant conservatism during at least 20 million years of host plant pursuit by oak gallwasps

GN Stone, A Hernandez-Lopez, JA Nicholls… - …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Diversification of insect herbivores is often associated with coevolution between plant toxins
and insect countermeasures, resulting in a specificity that restricts host plant shifts. Gall …

A fully web-illustrated morphological phylogenetic study of relationships among oak gall wasps and their closest relatives (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

J Liljeblad, F Ronquist, JL Nieves-Aldrey… - Zootaxa, 2008 - biotaxa.org
Large morphological phylogenetics analyses are often poorly documented because of the
constraints of traditional print journals, making it difficult to critically evaluate the data and …

Palaearctic oak gallwasps galling oaks (Quercus) in the section Cerris: re-appraisal of generic limits, with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera …

G Melika, J Pujade-Villar, Y Abe, TCT Tang ChangTi… - 2010 - cabidigitallibrary.org
We discuss the taxonomy of oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) whose
lifecycle involves only Palaearctic oaks (Quercus subgen. Quercus) in the section Cerris …

Phylogeny and DNA barcoding of inquiline oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Western Palaearctic

Z Ács, RJ Challis, P Bihari, M Blaxter, A Hayward… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2010 - Elsevier
We examine phylogenetic relationships within the Synergus complex of herbivorous
inquiline gallwasps (Hymenoptera; Cynipidae; Synergini) associated with cynipid host galls …

Influence of reproductive biology on establishment capacity in introduced Hymenoptera species

J Queffelec, JD Allison, JM Greeff, B Slippers - Biological Invasions, 2021 - Springer
Introduced species face numerous biological barriers before they can establish in a new
environment. Understanding how they overcome these obstacles is crucial for the …

Describing biodiversity in the genomics era: A new species of Nearctic Cynipidae gall wasp and its genome

PFP Brandão‐Dias, YM Zhang, S Pirro… - Systematic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) specializing on live oaks in the genus
Quercus (subsection Virentes) are a relatively diverse and well‐studied community with 14 …

[PDF][PDF] Oak associated inquilines (Hymenoptera, cynipidae, Synergini)

Z Pénzes, CT Tang, P Bihari, M Bozsó… - TISCIA monograph …, 2012 - researchgate.net
Cynipidae lies within the superfamily Cynipoidea of the Hymenoptera, which includes
approximately 3000 described species (Fergusson 1995, Ronquist 1999). With the …

Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both

AKG Ward, RK Bagley, SP Egan, GR Hood, JR Ott… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Quantifying the frequency of shifts to new host plants within diverse clades of specialist
herbivorous insects is critically important to understand whether and how host shifts …