Bassettia

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Bassettia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Tribe: Cynipini
Genus: Bassettia
Ashmead, 1887
Type species
Bassettia floridana
Ashmead, 1887

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. Abrahamson recognizes the following eight species in this genus:[4]

Subsequent changes include the addition of:

Former species

Melika and Abrahamson transferred or restored these species from Bassettia to Callirhytis Foerster, 1869 in 2002.[6][4] They had been included in Weld's 1951 taxonomy of Bassettia.[7]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Bassett, H. F. (1881). "New Cynipidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 13 (5): 92–93. doi:10.4039/Ent1392-5.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b c 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Melika, George; Abrahamson, Warren G. (2002). "Review of the World Genera of Oak Cynipid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)". In Melika, George; Thuróczy, Csaba (eds.). Parasitic Wasps: Evolution, Systematics, Biodiversity and Biological Control (PDF). Budapest: Agroinform. pp. 163–165. ISBN 978-963-502-765-1.
  7. ^ Weld, L. H. (1951). "Superfamily Cynipoidea". In Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, Karl V.; Townes, Henry K. (eds.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico: Synoptic Catalog. Department of Agricultuure: Agriculture Monograph. Vol. 2. Washington: United States Printing Office. pp. 643–644.

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