TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovery of an oak gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) inducing galls on deciduous oak trees in India
AU - Abe, Yoshihisa
AU - Bhuyan, Mantu
AU - Mech, Jiten
AU - Bhattacharyya, Pranab R.
AU - Ide, Tatsuya
AU - Mishima, Misako
AU - Suyama, Chika
AU - Sato, Shinsuke
AU - Matsuo, Kazunori
AU - Wachi, Nakatada
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - We report for the first time the occurrence of an oak gall wasp Andricus mukaigawae (Mukaigawa) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on the deciduous oak Quercus griffithii Hook. F & Thomson ex Miq. in India. Andricus mukaigawae is the only cynipid species that has been observed to induce galls on deciduous oak species in India to date. In addition, this is the first record of a gall wasp species with a distribution extending all the way from the eastern Palearctic region to the Indian subcontinent, suggesting the existence of a close relationship between cynipid faunas on deciduous oak trees in the two regions.
AB - We report for the first time the occurrence of an oak gall wasp Andricus mukaigawae (Mukaigawa) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on the deciduous oak Quercus griffithii Hook. F & Thomson ex Miq. in India. Andricus mukaigawae is the only cynipid species that has been observed to induce galls on deciduous oak species in India to date. In addition, this is the first record of a gall wasp species with a distribution extending all the way from the eastern Palearctic region to the Indian subcontinent, suggesting the existence of a close relationship between cynipid faunas on deciduous oak trees in the two regions.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2011.00510.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2011.00510.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84863782616
SN - 1343-8786
VL - 15
SP - 340
EP - 342
JO - Entomological Science
JF - Entomological Science
IS - 3
ER -