A new genus of oak gallwasp, Cyclocynips Melika, Tang &amp;amp; Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan

Melika, George; Tang, Chang Ti; Sinclair, Frazer; Yang, Man‐Miao; Lohse, Konrad; Hearn, Jack; Nicholls, James A.; Stone, Graham N.

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3630.3.8

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“…Despite this relatively high species richness, little was known about cynipine galls on Cyclobalanopsis until the recent description of the genera Cycloneuroterus Melika &Cyclocynips Melika, Tang, &Sinclair, 2013 and new species of Plagiotrochus (Ide et al , 2012(Ide et al , 2013Melika et al 2013;Tang et al 2011aTang et al , b, 2016a. Only one cynipine species, Cycloneuroterus wangi Abe, Ide, & Odagiri, 2014, has been reported to oviposit on Cyclobalanopsis outside Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam despite the wide Asian distribution (Abe et al 2014) of this Quercus subgenus.…”

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New Dryocosmus Giraud species associated with Cyclobalanopsis and non-Quercus host plants from the Eastern Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)

Tang¹,

István²,

Nicholls³

et al. 2016

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Our knowledge about gall wasps associated with the diverse East Asian oaks, Castanopsis and Cyclobalanopsis, is limited due to the lack of extensive field studies. All of the new species concepts are supported by morphological and molecular data. We provide descriptions, diagnoses, host associations for the new species and an illustrated identification key to Eastern Palaearctic Dryocosmus species. We represent natural language phenotypes in a semantic format supported by biomedical ontologies to increase the accessibility of morphological data.

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New Dryocosmus Giraud species associated with Cyclobalanopsis and non-Quercus host plants from the Eastern Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)

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István²,

Nicholls³

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“…Morphological and phylogenetic revisions support the division of the Cynipidae into several distinct tribes, within which the oak gall wasps (Cynipini) form a monophyletic assemblage (Liljeblad & Ronquist, 1998; Rokas et al ., 2002, 2003; Ronquist et al ., 2015). However, within the Cynipini, new genera and species are frequently being described (Pujade-Villar et al ., 2010; Medianero, Nieves-Aldrey & Melika, 2011; Ide et al ., 2012; Pujade-Villar et al ., 2012; Melika et al ., 2013; Tang et al ., 2016) and existing species and genera are often re-assigned making inferences into the biological characteristics of members of this group difficult (Drown & Brown, 1998; Melika & Abrahamson, 2007). While the vast majority of the oak gall wasps persist at low population level densities, due in part to regulation by parasitoids and inquilines (Washburn & Cornell, 1981; Moriya et al ., 1989; Stone et al ., 2002), occasionally species are known to outbreak and cause host plant damage and even mortality (Eliason & Potter, 2000; Cooper & Rieske, 2007; Pujade-Villar et al ., 2014).…”

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Development of microsatellite markers for an outbreaking species of oak gall wasp,Zapatella davisae(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), in the northeastern United States

Andersen

Camp

Davis

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Bull. Entomol. Res.

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Populations of the recently described black oak gall wasp, Zapatella davisae Buffington (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), have been identified as the cause of extensive tree damage and mortality to black oaks, Quercus velutina Lamarck (Fagales: Fagaceae), in the northeastern United States. Relatively little is known, however, about the distribution, phylogenetic placement, and lifecycle of this important tree pest. Therefore, we conducted next-generation sequencing using the Ion Torrent™ PGM (ThermoFisher Scientific, Inc.) platform to develop genomic resources for the study of Z. davisae and for other closely related species of oak gall wasps. Individual sequence reads were aligned, assembled into unique contigs, and the contigs were then utilized for the in silico isolation and development of microsatellite markers. In total, we screened 36 candidate microsatellite loci, of which 23 amplified consistently (five polymorphic and 18 monomorphic). We then examined whether the polymorphic loci could be used to infer whether populations of Z. davisae from Cape Cod and Nantucket are sexual or asexual by calculating several metrics of genetic diversity that might indicate the mode of reproduction. These included testing for statistical deviations from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) and for linkage disequilibrium (LD), observations for the presence of the Meselson effect, and by calculating the probability that clonal individuals are more prevalent than would be expected in a randomly mating population. While we found significant deviations from HWE and more clonal individuals than expected, our estimates of the Meselson effect were inconclusive due to limited sampling, and we found no evidence of LD. Therefore, the sexual/asexual status of Z. davisae populations remains uncertain.

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“…However, the Þrst gall-inducing wasp species observed on the subgenus Cyclobalanopsis was only described in 2010 , with a further 14 species described thereafter. In total, three species of Plagiotrochus Mayr, 1881, two species of Dryocosmus Giraud, 1859, seven species of Cycloneuroterus Melika & Tang, 2011, and two species of Cyclocynips Melika, Tang, & Sinclair, 2013 are currently known to be gall-inducing Cynipini on Cyclobalanopsis (Ide et al , 2012(Ide et al , 2013Tang et al 2011a,b;Melika et al 2013;Abe et al 2014). In addition, Synergus itoensis Abe, Wachi, & Ide, 2011, a member of the inquiline tribe Synergini, was also demonstrated to induce galls on Cyclobalanopsis (Abe et al 2011).…”

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“…In addition, Synergus itoensis Abe, Wachi, & Ide, 2011, a member of the inquiline tribe Synergini, was also demonstrated to induce galls on Cyclobalanopsis (Abe et al 2011). Although Cyclobalanopsis has a widespread distribution in Asia, the gall-inducing cynipids have been restricted to Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam (Ide et al , 2012(Ide et al , 2013Abe et al 2011;Tang et al 2011a,b;Melika et al 2013;Abe et al 2014). Despite increasingly intensive taxonomic studies being conducted on Mainland China over the past decade (Melika et al 2004;Wang et al 2010Wang et al , 2012Wang et al , 2013Liu et al 2012;Pujade-Villar and Wang 2012;Bernardo et al 2013), no cynipid wasps associated with Cyclobalanopsis have been reported in this region to date.…”

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Cynipidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea) on Cyclobalanopsis (Fagaceae) in Mainland China, with the First Record of Sexual Generation of Cynipini in Winter

Abe

Ide

Odagiri

2014

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

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Cycloneuroterus wangi Abe, Ide, & Odagiri sp. nov. and Dryocosmus nanlingensis Abe, Ide, & Odagiri sp. nov. are described from Mainland China. Gall wasps associated with Quercus (Cyclobalanopsis) sessilifolia Blume, which is distributed in Japan, Taiwan, and Mainland China, have not yet been recorded. However, this evergreen oak species is considered to be the host plant of C. wangi on the basis of an observation in which eight females of this gall wasp species inserted their ovipositors into the buds of Q. (C.) sessilifolia. This is the first record of the Cynipidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea) being associated with Cyclobalanopsis from Mainland China. As cynipids associated with Cyclobalanopsis have previously been known from Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam, the discovery of C. wangi indicates that oak gall wasps associated with Cyclobalanopsis are widely distributed in Asia, as predicted previously. The collection of an adult male of D. nanlingensis by sweeping Fagaceae trees represents the first observation of a sexual generation of Cynipini in winter. Further investigations are necessary to elucidate the life cycle and to identify the host plant of D. nanlingensis. Cynipid species richness in broadleaf forests dominated by Fagaceae is considered to be high in Mainland China because of remarkable diversity of potential host plants, such as oaks and related taxa.

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A new genus of oak gallwasp, Cyclocynips Melika, Tang & Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

New Dryocosmus Giraud species associated with Cyclobalanopsis and non-Quercus host plants from the Eastern Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)

New Dryocosmus Giraud species associated with Cyclobalanopsis and non-Quercus host plants from the Eastern Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)

Development of microsatellite markers for an outbreaking species of oak gall wasp,Zapatella davisae(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), in the northeastern United States

Cynipidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea) on Cyclobalanopsis (Fagaceae) in Mainland China, with the First Record of Sexual Generation of Cynipini in Winter

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