Catalog of Endophytic Insects Associated with Rosinweeds (Silphium L., Heliantheae, Asteraceae) in North America

LF Nastasi, CN Smith, JF Tooker… - Psyche: A Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Endophytic insects, including gall insects and leaf miners, are prominent in both natural and
agricultural plant communities. We catalog the endophytic insect fauna in North America that …

One must imagine Sisyphus happy: Integrative taxonomic characterization of 22 new Ceroptres species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Ceroptresini)

LF Nastasi, CN Smith, CK Davis, AKG Ward, G Brown… - Zootaxa, 2024 - par.nsf.gov
We describe new species in the genus Ceroptres Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae:
Ceroptresini) represented by voucher material sequenced by Ward et al.(2024). We …

[PDF][PDF] Article ZOOTAXA

LF Nastasi, AR Deans - Zootaxa, 2024 - lfnastasi.wordpress.com
Abstract We describe Aulacidea manchuria Nastasi sp. nov., a new species of herb gall
wasp from China and the second species of AulacideaAshmead, 1897 to be described from …

Discovery of Aulacidea follioti Barbotin, 1972 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aulacideini) in Canada and the United States

LF Nastasi, AR Deans - The Journal of the Entomological …, 2024 - journal.lib.uoguelph.ca
Abstract Aulacidea follioti Barbotin, 1972 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aulacideini) is a
species of gall wasp inducing stem galls on Sonchus asper (L.) Hill (Asteraceae …

[PDF][PDF] Discovery of the Palearctic species Neaylax verbenacus (Nieves-Aldrey, 1988)(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aulacideini) in Manitoba, Canada

LF Nastasi, R Amman, AR Deans - Specimen, 2024 - par.nsf.gov
Gall wasps are plant-associated insects that cause their host plants to form novel and
phenotypically diverse plant structures (galls), within which their offspring develop (Melika …

[PDF][PDF] New herb gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aulacideini) from Kyrgyzstan, with description of a new genus and a review of the genus Panteliella Kieffer

LF Nastasi, AR Deans - Zootaxa, 2024 - lfnastasi.wordpress.com
We describe three new aulacideine herb gall wasp species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae:
Aulacideini) from Kyrgyzstan, a country from which only two Aulacideini species were …