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The inquiline oak gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) fauna from Colombia: new data and species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

Irene Lobato-Vila*
Affiliation:
Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028Barcelona, Spain
Guadalupe Caicedo
Affiliation:
Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis, Calle 63 68-95, 111071Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Pedro A. Rodríguez
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigación Tibaitatá (Agrosavia), Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario, kilometer 14 Mosquera-Bogotá, 250047 Mosquera, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Juli Pujade-Villar
Affiliation:
Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028Barcelona, Spain
*
*Corresponding author. Email: ilobato@ub.edu

Abstract

A review of the current knowledge on the diversity of inquiline oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipinae) from Colombia is conducted for the first time. A new species, Synergus dawnus Lobato-Vila and Pujade-Villar, is formally described and illustrated, and an undescribed specimen from the same genus is diagnosed and discussed. New biological, morphological, and distribution data of the only two previously known species from this country (Synergus colombianus Nieves-Aldrey, 2005 and Synergus pedroi Pujade-Villar, Lobato-Vila, and Fernández-Garzón, 2017), as well as an identification key to the Colombian species of Synergus Hartig, 1840, are provided. The morphological variability of the Colombian species of Synergus, especially of S. pedroi, is discussed.

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© 2020 Entomological Society of Canada

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Subject editor: Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón

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