Andricus legitimus Wiebes-Rijks, 1980

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 : 11

Andricus legitimus Wiebes-Rijks, 1980 (**) ( Fig. 8 , Table 1)

Host plant/gall: Q. ped .—cryptic gall (1.5–2 mm Ø) grouped (2– 3 specimens) into stunted / aborted acorns (- a -).

Distribution in Dobrogea: Neptun seaside resort, Negru Vodӑ forest, CT county (Şchiopu, herein recorded).

World distribution: the Netherlands ( Wiebes-Rijks, 1980), Cehia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Poland — most likely ( Wiebes-Rijks, 1980), Bulgaria (Vassileva-Samnalieva, 1991), Hungary ( Melika et al. 2000), Spain ( Nieves-Aldrey, 2001), Western Ukraine —presumable ( Melika, 2006), Türkiye ( Mutun & Dinç, 2015).

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

Figures

FIGURE 8. Andricus legitimus Wiebes-Rijks, 1980, galls in stunted acorns of Quercus pedunculiflora C.Koch: a. acorn with adult emergence hole; b. section in acorn—the larval chamber and larva of the gall wasp species Andricus legitimus; c–f. section in acorns—larval chambers and larvae belong to inquiline species Synergus clandestinus Eady, 1952 (Photo: I. Şchiopu).