Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 45(4) 2002

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VOL 45(4) 2002

Keywords:

Faunistic, taxonomic changes, Andricus melikai n. sp.

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Gall wasps and their associated fauna collected in Greece, with some taxonomic changes and description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Chalcidoidea)

• Juli PUJADE-VILLAR
• Eckbert KWAST
• Csaba THUROCZY
• David BELLIDO

Abstract:

In several samples from Isle of Corfu and Peloponnesus Peninsula (Greece), 17 species of gall-forming cynipids (including a new species), 8 species of inquiline cynipids and 15 parasites (Chalcidoidea) have been identified. Most part of them (13 gall-inducing, 8 inquiline cynipids and 15 Chalcidoidea) are recorded for the first time in the studied area, increasing the known distribution of some. A new species, Andricus melikai n. sp, is also described from continental Greece and Rhodus oriundus QUINLAN is synonymized with Rhodus cyprius (HOUARD) n. comb. A lectotype for Andricus lucidus HARTIG, 1843 is also designated. Taxonomic comments on some species and forms found in Greece are also made.