Aylax minor Hartig, 1840

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 : 5

Aylax minor Hartig, 1840 (**) ( Fig. 4 , Table 1)

Host plant/gall: Papaver rhoeas L., P.dubium L. ( Papaveraceae )—gregarious globular individual galls inside capsules.

Distribution in Dobrogea: the villages—Comana, Dumbrӑveni, Esechioi, Valu lui Traian, forests—Canaraua Fetii Natural Reserve, „Fântâniţa”—Murfatlar Natural Reserve, Hagieni Natural Reserve, Negru Vodӑ, Neptun (Comorova forest), CT county ( Pujade-Villar & Şchiopu, 2015).

World distribution: Austria, France, Germany ( Kieffer 1897 – 1901), Great Britain ( Eady & Quinlan, 1963), Hungary ( Ambrus, 1974), Poland ( Kierych, 1979), Iberian Peninsula (Nieves-Aldrey, 1984, 2001; Pujade-Villar, 1986), Ukraine ( Diakontschuk, 2003; Melika, 2006), Türkiye (Katılmıs & Kiyak, 2011), Iran ( Melika & Karimpoor, 2012).

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

Figures

FIGURE 4. Aylax minor Hartig, 1840, galls in capsules of Papaver rhoeas L., left—groups of galls extracted from capsules; middle—galls separated between capsule septa; right—cross-section through a group of galls exposing larval cells and larvae (Photo: I. Şchiopu).