Review of the oak gall-wasp genus “Zapatella” Pujade-Villar & Melika with the description of two new species from Colombia (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)

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Sara Fernández-Garzón
Guadalupe Caicedo
Pedro A. Rodríguez
Juli Pujade-Villar
Two new species of Zapatella from the Colombian departments of Boyacá and Cundinamarca are here described: Z. cupulae Fernández-Garzón, Caicedo, Rodríguez & Pujade-Villar n. sp. and Z. migueli Pujade-Villar & Fernández-Garzón n. sp. The new species are agamic and sexual generations respectively, inducing galls in Quercus humboldtii acorns. The principal morphological characters of these new species are exhibited and illustrated. After this study, Zapatella includes a total of 13 species distributed in American continent from Nearctic and Neotropical regions. A key of Zapatella species is also included.
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Cynipini, Zapatella, revision, new species, taxonomy, Quercus humbodtii, Colombia

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Fernández-Garzón, Sara et al. “Review of the oak gall-wasp genus ‘Zapatella’ Pujade-Villar & Melika with the description of two new species from Colombia (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)”. Orsis: organismes i sistemes, 2017, vol.VOL 31, pp. 79-97, https://raco.cat/index.php/Orsis/article/view/330257.
Author Biographies

Sara Fernández-Garzón, Universitat de Barcelona

Facultat de Biologia. Departament de Biologia Animal

Juli Pujade-Villar, Universitat de Barcelona

 Facultat de Biologia. Departament de Biologia Animal 

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