Besbicus (wasp)
| Besbicus | |
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| Galls produced by Besbicus conspicuus, Sonoma County, California, 2023 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Subfamily: | Cynipinae |
| Tribe: | Cynipini |
| Genus: | Besbicus (Kinsey, 1929) |
Besbicus is a genus of gall-inducing cynipid wasp found in North America.[1] Several species now classed as Besbicus were formerly considered to be a part of the genus Cynips.[2][3] Besbicus was originally described as a subgenus by Alfred Kinsey in 1929.[4] Circa 2010, one group of entomologists noted that it was "possible that the nearctic genera Antron and Besbicus were erroneously synonymized to Cynips".[5]
Taxonomy[edit]
Besbicus contains the following species:
- Besbicus conspicuus[1]
- Besbicus heldae[1]
- Besbicus mirabilis[1][6]
- Besbicus maculosus[1]
- Besbicus multipunctatus[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Genus Besbicus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
- ^ Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. pp. 123–125. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502.
- ^ a b "Joyce Gross Photography: California Oak Galls Created by Cynipid Wasps". joycegross.com. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
- ^ Kinsey, Alfred Charles. "The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species/Part II. Systematic Data - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
- ^ Pujade-Villar, J.; Romero-Rangel, S.; ChagoyáN-GarcíA, C.; Equihua-MartíNez, A.; Estrada-Venegas, E. G.; Melika, G. (2010-01-13). "A new genus of oak gallwasps, Kinseyella Pujade-Villar & Melika, with a description of a new species from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)". Zootaxa. 2335 (1): 16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2335.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Evans, David (February 1967). "THE BISEXUAL AND AGAMIC GENERATIONS OF BESBICUS MIRABILIS (HYMENOPTERA: CYNIPIDAE), AND THEIR ASSOCIATE INSECTS". The Canadian Entomologist. 99 (2): 187–196. doi:10.4039/Ent99187-2. ISSN 0008-347X.
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