Cryptic species diversity is a major challenge regarding the species‐rich community of
parasitoids attacking oak gall wasps due to a high degree of sexual dimorphism …

Abstract Gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) comprise 13 distinct tribes whose
interrelationships remain incompletely understood. Recent analyses of ultra‐conserved …

Quantifying the frequency of shifts to new host plants within diverse clades of specialist
herbivorous insects is critically important to understand whether and how host shifts …

Several recent reappraisals of supposed generalist parasite species have revealed hidden
complexes of species, each with considerably narrower host ranges. Parasitic wasps that …

ABSTRACT Gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) specializing on live oaks in the genus
Quercus (subsection Virentes) are a relatively diverse and well‐studied community with 14 …

The identities of most arthropod associates of cynipid-induced oak galls in the western
Palearctic are generally known. However, a comprehensive accounting of associates has …

Abstract Most oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera; Cynipidae, Cynipini) have lifecycles involving
obligate alternation between a sexual and an asexual generation. Many species are …

In recent years, new wasp species and genera of Cynipidae have been described, and their
species delimitation and evolutionary relationships have been supported using molecular …

Dorymyrmex Mayr 1866, the 'pyramid ants' or 'cone ants', are conspicuous inhabitants of arid
landscapes across the Americas. Ranging from the Great Plains to Patagonia, they are …

Oak gall wasps typically exhibit a life cycle with one sexual and one asexual generation
each year. These wasps can carry various endosymbionts, one of which is the maternally …