Callirhytis ceropteroides BASSETT , 1900

Melika, G & Abrahamson, WG, 2007, Review Of The Nearctic Gallwasp Species Of The Genus Bassettia Ashmead, 1887, With Description Of New Species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53 (2), pp. 131-148 : 145

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12585738
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scientific name	Callirhytis ceropteroides BASSETT , 1900
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Callirhytis ceropteroides BASSETT, 1900

Callirhytis ceropteroides BASSETT 1900: 324 . Female, gall.

Type material examined – Lectotype female (here designated) “ Bassettia ceropteroides (Bass) ”, “Beut. Coll., rec’d 1935”, “ Callirhytis ceropteroides Bass., W. B. ”, red “Type”, “Waterbury, Ct., H. F. Bassett, Coll.”, and a red label was added “ LECTOTYPE. Callirhytis ceropteroides Bassett. Design. G. Melika 998”; one paralectotype female (here designated) “ Callirhytis ceropteroides B., 1555 I. ”, red “Type”, “Ct.”, and a red label was added “ PARALECTOTYPE. Callirhytis ceropteroides Bassett. Design. G. Melika 998”. In the USNM.

Other material examined – 4 females with “ Eumayria ceropteroides (Bass) det. Weld, 1924.”, “Collection, C. F. Baker ”, “Loan 2553”, “ Coll. C. F. Baker ”, “Cana 2393”, “ Coll. C. F. Baker ”, “Cana 2416.”, “ Coll. C. F. Baker,” “Louni 2553.”, and “ Coll. C. F. Baker ”, “Louni 2264.”; and 2 females with “ Bassettia ceropteroides (Bass) , det. Weld, 1943.”, “Collection ASHMEAD ”, “ Ft. Pendelton. 7.7, W. Va ”. In the USNM .

Biology – Only the asexual generation is known which induces stem galls on Q. velutina LAM. Adults emerge in July ( BASSETT 1900).

Distribution – USA: Connecticut (Crescent Beach, Branford; Waterbury) ( BASSETT 1900), West Virginia (Ft. Pendelton).