Liposthenes

Liposthenes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Cynipidae
Genus:	Liposthenes Förster, 1869

Liposthenes is a genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. It forms galls on plants from the genus Glechoma . ^[1] There are at least two described species in Liposthenes. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Species

These two species belong to the genus Liposthenes:

• Liposthenes glechomae (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Liposthenes kerneri (Wachtl, 1891)

References

1. Nastasi, Louis F.; Buffington, Matthew L.; Davis, Charles K.; Deans, Andrew R. (2024-03-25). "Key to the North American tribes and genera of herb, rose, bramble, and inquiline gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae sensu lato)". ZooKeys (1196). Pensoft Publishers: 177–207. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1196.118460 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   10985401 . PMID   38566620.
2. "Liposthenes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. "Liposthenes". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
4. "Liposthenes genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Further reading

• 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.