Zootaxa 4054 (1): 001–084 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Monograph ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2015 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4054.1.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CCE311C0-9D33-42AC-8DE0-B271D4BE4FD7 ZOOTAXA 4054 New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Saphonecrus (Hymenoptera: Cyn- ipidae: Synergini) from the Eastern Palaearctic, with a re-appraisal of known species world-wide SZABINA SCHWÉGER1, GEORGE MELIKA2, CHANG-TI TANG3, MAN-MIAO YANG3, GRAHAM N. STONE4, JAMES A. NICHOLLS4, FRAZER SINCLAIR4, JACK HEARN4, MIKLÓS BOZSÓ2 & ZSOLT PÉNZES5 1University of Szeged, Department of Ecology, Közép fasor 52 Szeged, Hungary. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Plant Health and Molecular Biology Laboratory, National Food Chain Safety Office, Directorate of Plant Protection, Soil Conserva- tion and Agri-environment, Budaörsi str. 141-145, Budapest 1118, Hungary. E-mail: [email protected] (for George Meika; corresponding author); [email protected] (for Miklós Bozsó) 3 Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227 Taiwan. E-mails: [email protected] 4 Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Scotland, U.K. E-mails: [email protected] (for G.N. Stone); [email protected] (for J.A. Nicholls), [email protected] (for F. Sinclair); [email protected];(for J. Hearn) 5University of Szeged, Department of Ecology, Közép fasor 52 Szeged, Hungary and Biological Resesarch Center of Hungarian Acad- emy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics, Temesvári krt 62, Szeged, Hungary. E-mail: [email protected] Corresponding author: George Melika Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Accepted by I. Miko: 3 Nov. 2015; published: 8 Dec. 2015 SZABINA SCHWÉGER, GEORGE MELIKA, CHANG-TI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, GRAHAM N. STONE, JAMES A. NICHOLLS, FRAZER SINCLAIR, JACK HEARN, MIKLÓS BOZSÓ & ZSOLT PÉNZES 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) 84 pp.; 30 cm. 8 Dec. 2015 ISBN 978-1-77557-851-2 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77557-852-9 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2015 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2015 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. 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Table of contents Abstract . 3 Introduction . 4 Materials and methods . 5 Results . 6 Key to Synergini genera . 8 Key to Palaearctic Saphonecrus species . 11 Saphonecrus chinensis Tang & Schwéger, new species . 13 Saphonecrus gilvus Melika & Schwéger, new species . 16 Saphonecrus globosus Schwéger & Tang, new species . 20 Saphonecrus leleyi Melika & Schwéger, new species . 23 Saphonecrus lithocarpii Schwéger & Melika, new species . 25 Saphonecrus longinuxi Schwéger & Melika, new species . 29 Saphonecrus morii Schwéger & Tang, new species . 31 Saphonecrus nantoui Tang, Schwéger & Melika, new species . 34 Saphonecrus nichollsi Schwéger & Melika, new species . 37 Saphonecrus pachylomai Schwéger, Tang & Melika, new species . 40 Saphonecrus robustus Schwéger & Melika, new species . 43 Saphonecrus saliciniai Melika, Tang & Schwéger, new species . 46 Saphonecrus shanzhukui Melika & Tang, new species . 49 Saphonecrus symbioticus Melika & Schwéger, new species . 51 Saphonecrus taitungi Schwéger, Tang & Melika, new species . 55 Current status of previously described Saphonecrus species. 59 Saphonecrus areolatus Weld, 1926 . 59 Saphonecrus barbotini Pujade-Villar & Nieves-Aldrey, 1985 (Figs 241–248) and Saphonecrus gallaepomiformis (Boyer de Fonsco- lombe, 1832) (Figs 249–263) . 59 Saphonecrus brevicornis (Ashmead, 1896) . 62 Synergus brevis (Weld, 1926), comb. nova . 62 Saphonecrus chaodongzhui Melika, Ács & Bechtold, 2004 . 62 Saphonecrus connatus (Hartig, 1840) . 62 Saphonecrus diversus Belizin, 1968 . 64 Saphonecrus excisus (Kieffer, 1904) . 64 Saphonecrus favanus Weld, 1944 . 67 Saphonecrus flavitibilis Wang & Chen, 2010 . 68 Saphonecrus gemmariae Ashmead, 1885 . 68 Synergus hupingshanensis (Liu, Yang & Zhu, 2012), comb. nova . 68 Saphonecrus naiquanlini Melika, Ács & Bechtold, 2004 . 68 Saphonecrus reticulatus Pujade-Villar, Wang & Guo, 2014 . 70 Saphonecrus serratus Weld, 1926 . 72 Saphonecrus shirakashii (Shinji, 1940) (Figs 341–355) and Saphonecrus shirokashicola (Shinji, 1941) (Figs 356–362) . 78 Saphonecrus sinicus Belizin, 1968 . 79 Saphonecrus tianmushanus Wang & Chen, 2010 . 79 Synergus yukawai (Wachi, Ide & Abe, 2011), comb. nova . 79 DISCUSSION . 80 Acknowledgements . 81 REFERENCES . ..