Feron (wasp)
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| The galls formed by Feron kingi (bottom left) and Feron parmula (across center) on an oak leaf | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Tribe: | Cynipini |
| Genus: | Feron Kinsey, 1937 |
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Andricus Hartig, 1840 | |
Feron is a genus of oak gall wasps in the Nearctic. It was established by Alfred Kinsey in 1937, then re-established in 2023.[2]
Species[edit]
The following species are grouped into Feron:[2]
- Feron albicomus (Weld, 1952)
- Feron amphorus (Weld, 1926)
- Feron apiarium (Weld, 1944)
- Feron atrimentum (Kinsey, 1922)
- Feron bakkeri (Lyon, 1984)
- Feron caepula (Weld, 1926)
- Feron californicum (Beutenmueller, 1911)
- Feron clarkei (Bassett, 1890)
- Feron comatum (Weld, 1952)
- Feron crystallinum (Bassett, 1900)
- Feron cylindratum (Kinsey, 1937)
- Feron discale (Weld, 1926)
- Feron discularis (Weld, 1926)
- Feron dumosae (Weld, 1957)
- Feron gigas (Kinsey, 1922)
- Feron izabellae (Melika, Nicholls & Stone)
- Feron kingi (Bassett, 1900)
- Feron parmula (Bassett, 1900)
- Feron pattersonae (Fullaway, 1911)
- Feron roberti (Melika, Nicholls & Stone)
- Feron rucklei (Melika, Nicholls & Stone)
- Feron scutellum (Weld, 1930)
- Feron serranoae (Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta)
- Feron splendens (Weld, 1919)
- Feron stellare (Weld, 1926)
- Feron stellulum (Burnett, 1974)
- Feron sulfureum (Weld, 1926)
- Feron syndicorum (Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta)
- Feron tecturnarum (Kinsey, 1920)
- Feron tetyanae (Melika)
- Feron tibiale (Kinsey, 1937)
- Feron tubifaciens (Weld, 1926)
- Feron verutum (Kinsey, 1937)
- Feron vitreum (Kinsey, 1937)
References[edit]
- ^ "Feron". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ a b Cuesta-Porta, Victor; Melika, George; Nicholls, James A.; Stone, Graham N.; Pujade-Villar, Juli (2023-11-07). "Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Feron Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including the description of six new species". Zootaxa. 5366 (1): 1–174. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5366.1.1. hdl:20.500.11820/8d7cf66b-8011-4572-b520-b8f5d78deae2. ISSN 1175-5334.