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Tribe of wasps

Synergini

Saphonecrus connatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Cynipidae
Subfamily:	Cynipinae
Tribe:	Synergini
Genera
See text
Diversity
69 species^[1]

Synergini is a tribe of gall wasps in the subfamily Cynipinae.^[2]^[3]

The following genera are generally accepted within Synergini:^[4]

Agastoroxenia^[5]
Lithosaphonecrus^[6]
Saphonecrus
Rhoophilus^[7]
Synergus
Ufo

All of these except Lithosaphonecrus and Rhoophilus are found in the eastern Palearctic realm.^[4] Synergus has the greatest number of species in Synergini.^[7]

A reworking of the entire Cynipidae family published in 2015 transferred three genera formerly included in Synergini to other tribes - Ceroptres to a tribe of its own (Ceroptresini), and Periclistus and Synophromorpha to Diastrophini.^[8]

Gall use

Members of Synergini have lost the ability to create their own galls, and instead make use of galls left behind by other wasps. As a result, they are classified as inquilines.^[9] Species in Synergini usually make use of galls made by wasps in tribe Cynipini.^[7]

References

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↑ Nastasi, Louis F; Buffington, Matthew L; Davis, Charles K; Deans, Andrew R (2024). "Key to the North American tribes and genera of herb, rose, bramble, and inquiline gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidaesensu lato)". ZooKeys. 1196.
↑ Wachi N, Ide T, Abe Y (2011-05-01). "A New Inquiline Species of Saphonecrus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) Associated with Cecidomyiid Galls on Oak Trees in Japan". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 104 (3): 369–373. doi:10.1603/an10187. ISSN 0013-8746.
↑ Fernandes GW, Santos JC (2014-06-26). Neotropical Insect Galls. Springer. p. 467. ISBN 978-94-017-8783-3.
1 2 Melika G, Choi JY, Pujade-Villar J, Pénzes Z, Fülöp D (2007-09-01). "A New Species of Inquiline Cynipid of the Genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 from Korea (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 10 (3): 197–200. doi:10.1016/S1226-8615(08)60353-2. ISSN 1226-8615.
↑ Nieves-Aldrey JL, Medianero E (1 July 2010). "Agastoroxenia panamensis, a New Genus and Species of Inquiline Oak Gall Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) of the Neotropics". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 103 (4): 492–499. doi:10.1603/AN09148. S2CID 86613914.
↑ Schwéger S, Melika G, Tang CT, Yang MM, Stone GN, Nicholls JA, et al. (December 2015). "New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Saphonecrus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from the Eastern Palaearctic, with a re-appraisal of known species world-wide". Zootaxa. 4054: 1–84. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4054.1.1. PMID 26701460.
1 2 3 Acs Z, Challis RJ, Bihari P, Blaxter M, Hayward A, Melika G, et al. (April 2010). "Phylogeny and DNA barcoding of inquiline oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Western Palaearctic" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 55 (1): 210–25. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.004. PMID 20004727.
↑ Ronquist F, Nieves-Aldrey JL, Buffington ML, Liu Z, Liljeblad J, Nylander JA (2015-05-20). "Phylogeny, evolution and classification of gall wasps: the plot thickens". PLOS ONE. 10 (5) e0123301. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1023301R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123301. PMC 4439057. PMID 25993346.
↑ Melika G, Ros-Farré P, Pénzes Z, Ács Z, Pujade-Villar J 2005. Ufo abei Melika et Pujade-Villar (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) new genus and new species from Japan. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 51 (4), 313–327.

Taxon identifiers
Synergini	Wikidata: Q21029952 Wikispecies: Synergini BugGuide: 613014 Fauna Europaea: 197152 Fauna Europaea (new): 9ebe1757-ebab-415f-afc4-81fa2352919d ITIS: 705557 NBN: NHMSYS0021250904 NCBI: 85118 Open Tree of Life: 784655

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