Ceroptres
| Ceroptres | |
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| Ceroptres clavicornis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Tribe: | Ceroptresini |
| Genus: | Ceroptres Hartig, 1840 |
Ceroptres is a genus of gall wasp. Most of its species are found in North America, and most are inquilines, meaning it oviposits its eggs in a host gall. These host galls are mostly induced by other gall wasps, but some species of Ceroptres use the galls of gall midges.[1]
Species
[edit]Ceroptres contains at least 43 species, including:[1][2][3]
- Ceroptres anansii (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres anzui (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres bruti (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres catesbaei (Ashmead, 1885)
- Ceroptres clavicornis (Hartig, 1840)
- Ceroptres confertus (McCracken & Egbert, 1922)
- Ceroptres cornigera (Melika & Buss, 2002)
- Ceropt)res curupira (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres daleki (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for daleks from Doctor Who[4]
- Ceroptres dandoi (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for Edward Dando[1]
- Ceroptres demerzelae (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres ensiger (Walsh, 1864)
- Ceroptres frondosae (Ashmead, 1896)
- Ceroptres iktomii (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres jabbai (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars[4]
- Ceroptres jarethi (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres junquerasi (Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar)
- Ceroptres lanigerae (Ashmead, 1885)
- Ceroptres lenis (Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar)
- Ceroptres lokii (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres lupini (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for Arsène Lupin[1]
- Ceroptres mallowi (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for Hober Mallow[1]
- Ceroptres mexicanus (Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar)
- Ceroptres minutissimi (Ashmead, 1885)
- Ceroptres montensis (Weld, 1957)
- Ceroptres nigricrus (Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar)
- Ceroptres petiolicola (Osten Sacken, 1861)
- Ceroptres pisum (Osten Sacken, 1861)
- Ceroptres promethei (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for Prometheus[4]
- Ceroptres quadratifacies (Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar)
- Ceroptres rufiventris (Ashmead, 1896)
- Ceroptres sandiegoae (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for Carmen Sandiego[1]
- Ceroptres selinae (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for Selina Kyle[1]
- Ceroptres soloi (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres songae (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for River Song[1]
- Ceroptres swiperi (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Named for Swiper from Dora the Explorer[1]
- Ceroptres thrymi (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres tikoloshei (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
- Ceroptres zorroi (Nastasi, Smith, & Davis)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Nastasi, Louis F.; Smith, Cecil N.; Davis, Charles K.; Ward, Anna K.G.; Brown, Guerin; Zhang, Y. Miles; Rollins, Shannon; Friesen, Chris; Tribull, Carly M.; Forbes, Andrew A.; Deans, Andrew R. (2024-09-17). "One must imagine Sisyphus happy: Integrative taxonomic characterization of 22 new Ceroptres species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Ceroptresini)". Zootaxa. 5508 (1): 1–63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5508.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Lobato-Vila, Irene; Pujade-Villar, Juli (2019-10-11). "Revision of world Ceroptresini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with the description of a new genus and five new species". Zootaxa. 4685 (1): zootaxa.4685.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4685.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31719371.
- ^ 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): 177–207. Bibcode:2024ZooK.1196..177N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1196.118460. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 10985401. PMID 38566620.
- ^ a b c d Funnell, Rachael (2024-09-18). "Jabba The Hutt Wasp Among 22 New Species Of Parasitic Gall Raiders". IFLScience. Retrieved 2024-10-10.