Synergus longimalaris Pujade-Villar & Lobato-Vila 2017
- Dataset
- Synergus Hartig species group (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) with partially smooth mesopleurae from the New World
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Curculionidae
- genus
- Synergus
- species
- Synergus longimalaris
biology_ecology
Biology. Originally reared from a gall of Amphibolips on Quercus conzattii Trel. (Lobatae section) (Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar 2017). The new material presented here was reared from galls of Amphibolips dampfi Kinsey, 1937 and an undetermined species of Amphibolips on Q. affinis Scheidw. (Lobatae section); from galls of Andricus cylindratum (Kinsey, 1937) on Q. glabrescens Benth. (Quercus section); from galls of Andricus from the group tecturnarum on an unidentified species of Quercus; and from galls of an undetermined species of Amphibolips on an unidentified species of Quercus (see the material examined).
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Synergus longimalaris is morphologically close to S. cibriani, S. citriformis (see above) and S. longiscapus Pujade-Villar & Lobato-Vila, 2017 (see below), whose main differences have already been commented on (see the diagnosis of S. cibriani and S. citriformis, and the identification key). Brief redescription. Female antenna 14 - segmented, male antenna 15 - segmented; F 1 1.5 times as long as F 2; F 1 of males slightly curved, faintly expanded apically and basally; face wide, trapezoid to subquadrate, transfacial line about 1.3 times as long as height of compound eyes; malar space 0.8 times as long as height of compound eye; frons and vertex alutaceous to coriaceous, frons with scarce small punctures; frontal carinae absent; both mesoscutum and scutellum alutaceous to finely coriaceous or reticulated; notauli complete and visible in their whole length; scutellar foveae shallowly impressed, almost inconspicuous; circumscutellar carina well defined, with a slightly projected margin; mesopleurae basally and medially regularly striate, speculum smooth; metasoma not dorsodistally incised, pointed and with a few weak micropunctures forming a posterodorsal patch; radial cell closed, 2.4 times as long as wide; tarsal claws with a basal tooth; body black and yellow. For more details on the morphology of this species, see Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar (2017).
distribution
Distribution. Mexico. Originally described from the state of Jalisco (Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar 2017) and here also reared from galls collected in the states of Hidalgo, Mexico, Michoacán and Morelos (see the material examined).
materials_examined
Material examined (9 ♂ & 29 ♀). New material collected in Mexico with the following location data: STATE OF HIDALGO: MEX: 298 (2784), Predio La Victoria (Acaxochitlán, HGO), 20 ° 10 ’ 17.59 ’’ N, 98 ° 10 ’ 58.59 ’’ W, 2130 m, Ex. Amphibolips dampfi, Q. affinis, (19. iii. 2014) v. 2014, D. Cibrián leg.: 6 ♂ & 25 ♀ (3 ♂ & 3 deposited in UB; the rest deposited in UACh); MEX: P 304 (2915), same as MEX: 298 (2784), Ex. Amphibolips sp., (03. v. 2014) v. 2014, U. Barrera leg.: 1 ♂ & 2 ♀ (deposited in UB). STATE OF MEXICO: MEX: P 240, Ejido Santa María Nativitas (Texcoco, EDO. MEX.), 19 ° 27 ’ 41.3 ’’ N, 98 ° 47 ’ 22.2 ’’ W, 2703 m, Ex. Andricus cylindratum, Q. glabrescens, (27. i. 2015) 09. iii. 2015, E. Estrada & A. Equihua leg.: 1 ♀ (deposited in UB). STATE OF MICHOACÁN: MEX: P 380, Guadalajara-Morelia Highway km 320 (MICH), 19 ° 54 ’ 4.566 ’’ N, 100 ° 27 ’ 53.546 ’’ W, 2072 m, Ex. Amphibolips sp, Quercus sp., (21. vii. 2018) 01 - 15. vii. 2018, A. Equihua leg.: 1 ♂ & 1 ♀ (deposited in UB). STATE OF MORELOS: MEX: P 342 (17 A), Omitlán de Juárez (MOR), 20 ° 10 ’ 07 ’’ N, 98 ° 38 ’ 52 ’’ W, 2500 m, Ex. Andricus grup tectucnarum, Quercus sp., Efrain leg.: 1 ♂ (deposited in UB).