Heteroecus

Heteroecus
Heteroecus pacificus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Cynipidae
Tribe:	Cynipini
Genus:	Heteroecus Kinsey, 1922

Heteroecus is a genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are about seven described species in the genus Heteroecus. ^{[1] [2] [3]} They are only found on oaks (Quercus) of the section Protobalanus. ^[4]

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Heteroecus:

• Heteroecus crescentus (Lyon)
• Heteroecus dasydactyli (Ashmead, 1896) – woolly gall wasp
• Heteroecus devorus (Lyon)
• Heteroecus lyoni – Lyon's gall wasp
• Heteroecus melanoderma Kinsey, 1922 – golden gall wasp
• Heteroecus pacificus (Ashmead, 1896) – beaked spindle gall wasp
• Heteroecus sanctaeclarae – mushroom gall wasp

References

1. "Heteroecus Kinsey, 1922". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Heteroecus Kinsey, 1922". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Heteroecus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. Zimmerman, James R. (2018). "A synopsis of oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Southwestern United States with a key and comments on each of the genera". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 91 (1): 58. doi:10.2317/0022-8567-91.1.58.

Further reading

• Melika, G.; Abrahamson, W. G. (2002). Melika, G.; Thuroczy, C. (eds.). Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini Latreille, 1802). Parasitic Wasps: Evolution, Systematics, Biodiversity and Biological Control. Angroinform. pp. 150–190. ISBN   978-963-502-765-1.
• Weld, Lewis H. (1959). Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States. Privately printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Ronquist, Fredrik (1999). "Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea". Zoologica Scripta. 28 (1–2): 139–164. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.1999.00022.x.