Bassettia
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| Bassettia | |
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| Bassettia gemmae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Tribe: | Cynipini |
| Genus: | Bassettia Ashmead, 1887 |
| Type species | |
| Bassettia floridana Ashmead, 1887 | |
Bassettia is a genus of gall wasps found in North America.
This genus was circumscribed by William Harris Ashmead in 1887. Ashmead named the genus after "Mr. H. F. Bassett, of Waterbury, Conn., who has done so much towards advancing our knowledge of these intricate Hymenopters". Two species were included in the genus's initial circumscription: B. floridana, described in the same work, and B. tenuicornis.[1] Bassett had described the latter species in 1881, placing it in the genus Cynips.[2]
Ashmead later designated B. floridana as the genus's type species.[3][4]
