Aphelonyx

Aphelonyx
Galls of Aphelonyx cerricola growing on a branch of Quercus cerris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Cynipidae
Tribe:	Cynipini
Genus:	Aphelonyx Mayr, 1881  [1]

Aphelonyx is a genus of oak gall wasps in the family Cynipidae, ^[2] comprising three known species:

• Aphelonyx cerricola (Giraud, 1859)
• Aphelonyx kordestanica Melika, 2010 ^[3]
• Aphelonyx persica Melika, Stone, Sadeghi & Pujade-Villar, 2004 ^[4]

References

1. "705565". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
2. Melika, G. & Abrahamson, W.G. (2002) Review of the World Genera of Oak Cynipid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). In: Melika, G. & Thuróczy, C. (Eds.), Parasitic Wasps: Evolution, Systematics, Biodiversity and Biolog-ical Control. International Symposium: “Parasitic Hymenoptera: Taxonomy and Biological Control” (14–17 May 2001, Kõszeg, Hungary). Agroinform, Budapest, pp. 150–190.
3. Melika G, Pujade-Villar J, Abe Y, Tang CT, Nicholls J, Wachi N, Ide T, Yang MM, Penzes Z, Gyorgy C, Stone GN (2010). "Palaearctic oak gallwasps galling oaks (Quercus) in the section Cerris: re-appraisal of generic limits, with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2470: 1–79. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2470.1.1.
4. MELIKA, G.; STONE, G. N.; SADEGHI, S. E.; PUJADE-VILLAR, J. (2004). "NEW SPECIES OF CYNIPID GALL WASPS FROM IRAN AND TURKEY (HYMENOPTERA: CYNIPIDAE: CYNIPINI)" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae . 50 (2): 139–151.