Aulacidea follioti Barbotin,1972

Şchiopu, Ion, 2025, Gall wasps-inducers and inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae and Diplolepididae) from Dobrogea Province (South-Eastern of Romania), including new species records for this area, Zootaxa 5665 (1), pp. 1-36 : 3

Aulacidea follioti Barbotin,1972 (**) ( Fig. 3 , Table 1)

Host plant/gall: Sonchus asper (L.) Hill—cryptic galls inside the stem.

Distribution in Dobrogea: Km 33 on Constanţa-Mangalia road, Comana village, Hagieni forest Natural Reserve, Neptun resort, CT county (Şchiopu, herein recorded).

World distribution: France ( Barbotin, 1972), Spain (Nieves-Aldrey,1989, 2001), Great Britain ( Bowdrey, 1994; Forshage et al., 2017), North America— Canada and USA ( Nastasi & Deans, 2024).

(**) the first record in Romania’s fauna.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Aulacidea follioti Barbotin, 1972. galls in the stem of Sonchus asper (L.) Hill. (Photo: I. Şchiopu).