Posted: April 17, 2025
Louis Nastasi and Andrew Deans had another herb gall wasp paper published in Zootaxa, this time reviewing the world genera of Phanacidini!

Phanacidini from South Africa. Photo by Louis Nastasi.
They present the first record of the tribe from China and a new diagnostic character for separating the tribes of herb gall wasps. The authors would be happy to provide a PDF of the paper on request.
Nastasi, L.F. & Deans, A.R. (2025) Review of the world genera of Phanacidini (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Cynipidae), with the first record from China and a new tribal diagnostic character. Zootaxa, 5621 (4), 401–419. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5621.4.1
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