Bassettia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Tribe: | Cynipini |
| Genus: | Bassettia Ashmead, 1887 |
| Type species | |
| Bassettia floridana Ashmead, 1887
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Bassettia is a genus of gall wasps found in North America.
Taxonomic history
This species was circumscribed by William Harris Ashmead in 1887. Ashmead named the genus after "Mr. H. F. Bassett, of Waterbury, Conn., who has done so much towards advancing our knowledge of these intricate Hymenopters". Two species were included in the genus's initial circumscription: B. floridana, which Ashmead described in the same work, and B. tenuicornis,[1] which Bassett had described earlier, placing in the genus Cynips.[2]
Ashmead later designated B. floridana as the genus's type species.[3][4]
Species
A 2007 revision of the genus by G. Melika and W. G. Abrahmson recognizes the following eight species in this genus:[4]
- Bassettia archboldi Melika & Abrahamson, 2007 — Florida
- Bassettia floridana Ashmead, 1887 — Connecticut, Florida
- Bassettia gemmae Ashmead, 1896 — Missouri, Illinois, District of Columbia
- Bassettia ligni Kinsey, 1922 — California, Oregon
- Bassettia pallida Ashmead, 1896 — Georgia, Florida
- Bassettia tenuana Weld, 1921 — New Mexico
- Bassettia virginiana Melika & Abrahamson, 2007 — Virginia
- Bassettia weldi Melika & Abrahamson, 2007 — Arizona
Subsequent changes include the addition of:
- Bassettia caulicola Medianero & Nieves-Aldrey, 2010 — Panama[5]
References
- ^ Ashmead, William H. (1887). "On the Cynipidous Galls of Florida, with Descriptions of New Species and Synopses of the Described Species of North America". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 14: 146–147. JSTOR 25076487.
- ^ Bassett, H. F. (1881). "New Cynipidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 13 (5): 92–93. doi:10.4039/Ent1392-5.
- ^ Ashmead, William H. (1903). "Classification of the Gall-Wasps and the Parasitic Cynipoids, or the Superfamily Cynipoidea III". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 10 (324): 155. doi:10.1155/1903/83423.
- ^ a b Melika, G.; Abrahamson, W. G. (2007). "Review of the nearctic gallwasp species of the genus Bassettia Ashmead, 1887, with description of new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 53 (2): 131–148.
- ^ Medianero, E.; Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. (2010). "Description of the first Neotropical species of Bassettia Ashmead, 1887 (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) from Panama". Graellsia. 66 (2): 213. doi:10.3989/graellsia.2010.v66.029.
Further reading
- Ashmead, William H. (1896). "Descriptions of new cynipidous Galls and Gall-Wasps in the United States National Museum". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 19 (1102): 128.
- Burks, B. D. (1979). "Superfamily Cynipoidea". In Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Jr., Paul D.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.). Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Vol. 1. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 1096–1097.
- Kinsey, Alfred C. (1922). "New Pacific Coast Cynipidæ (Hymenoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 46 (3): 291–292. hdl:2246/1962.
- Weld, Lewis H. (1921). "American gallflies of the family Cynipidae producing subterranean galls on oak". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 59 (2368): 232–234.
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