Periclistus
| Periclistus | |
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| A female Periclistus caninae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Subfamily: | Cynipinae |
| Tribe: | Diastrophini |
| Genus: | Periclistus Förster, 1869 |
Periclistus is a genus of gall wasps in the tribe Diastrophini, formerly included in the tribe Synergini.[1] There are at least 17 described species in Periclistus.[1][2] Species from this genus are associated with host plants in the rose family, where in a phenomenon called agastoparasitism, they inquiline in the galls of at least four related species, Diastrophus, Diplolepis, Liebelia, and Xestophanes.[2][3]
Species
[edit]Species in the genus Periclistus include the following:[2]
- Periclistus arefactus (McCracken & Egbert, 1922)
- Periclistus brandtii (Ratzeburg, 1832)
- Periclistus californicus (Ashmead, 1896)
- Periclistus caninae (Hartig, 1840)
- Periclistus capillatus (Belizin, 1968)
- Periclistus mongolicus (Belizin, 1973)
- Periclistus natalis (Taketani & Yasumatsu, 1973)
- Periclistus obliquus (Provancher, 1888)
- Periclistus orientalis (Pang, Liu & Zhu, 2020)
- Periclistus piceus (Fullaway, 1911)
- Periclistus pirata (Osten-Sacken, 1863)
- Periclistus qinghainensis (Pujade-Villar, Wang, Guo, Chen, 2016)
- Periclistus quinlani (Taketani & Yasumatsu, 1973)
- Periclistus semipiceus (Harris, 1841)
- Periclistus setosus (Wang, Liu & Chen, 2012)
- Periclistus smilacis (Ashmead, 1896)
- Periclistus spinosissimae (Dettmer, 1924)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Buffington, Matthew L; Forshage, Mattias; Liljeblad, Johan; Tang, Chang-Ti; Van Noort, Simon (2020). "World Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera): a key to higher-level groups". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 4 (4): 1.
- ^ a b c van Noort, Simon. "Hymenoptera of the World". WaspWeb. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
- ^ Pang, Yin; Liu, Zhiwei; Su, Cheng-Yuan; Zhu, Dao-Hong (2020). "A new species of Periclistus Foerster, 1869 from China and review of the tribe Diastrophini (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae)". ZooKeys. 964.