Search filters

List of works by George Melika

A New Cycloneuroterus Melika & Tang Oak Gallwasp Species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) Associated with Lithocarpus (Fagaceae) from Taiwan

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

A New Genus of Oak Gallwasp, Heocynips Fang, Nieves-Aldrey, and Melika (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), from China

scientific article

A New Species of Inquiline Cynipid of the Genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 from Korea (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)

scientific article published in September 2007

A Taxonomic Review of the Gall Wasp Genus Saphonecrus Dalla-Torre and Kieffer and other Oak Cynipid Inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) from Mainland China, with Updated Keys to Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Species. ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

A likelihood-based comparison of population histories in a parasitoid guild

scientific article published on 14 August 2012

A new Andricus Hartig oak gallwasp species from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

scientific article published in December 2012

A new Latuspina Monzen oak gallwasp species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

scientific article published in December 2012

A new Plagiotrochus Mayr oak gall wasp species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

scientific article published in June 2016

A new cynipid inquiline of the genus Lithosaphonecrus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from India, with an updated key to all known species ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

A new genus of Nearctic oak gall wasp, Grahamstoneia Melika & Nicholls, gen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

A new genus of cynipid inquiline, Lithosaphonecrus Tang, Melika & Bozsó (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), with description of four new species from Taiwan and China

article

A new genus of oak gallwasp, Coffeikokkos Pujade-Villar & Melika, gen. n., with a description of a new species from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on January 31, 2012

A new genus of oak gallwasp, Cyclocynips Melika, Tang & Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan

scientific article (publication date: 21 March 2013)

A new genus of oak gallwasp, Kokkocynips Pujade-Villar & Melika gen. n., with a description of a new species from Mexico (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)

scientific article

A new genus of oak gallwasp, Protobalandricus Melika, Nicholls Stone (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from California

scientific article published in 2018

A new genus of oak gallwasps, Cycloneuroterus Melika & Tang, with the description of five new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

A new genus of oak gallwasps, Kinseyella Pujade-Villar & Melika, with a description of a new species from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 January 2010

A new genus of oak gallwasps, Zapatella Pujade-Villar & Melika, gen. n., with a description of two new species from the Neotropics (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 24, 2012

A new name for Amphibolips kinseyi Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar and a revised key to the Amphibolips ‘nassa’ species-complex from Mexico and Central America (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

scientific article

A new species of Andricus Hartig gallwasps from California (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) galling Notholithocarpus (Fagaceae)

A new species of Cerroneuroterus Melika Pujade-Villar from the Eastern Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

A review of the species in the genus Synergus Hartig (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from mainland China, with an updated key to the Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental species

scientific article

Adding another piece to the cynipoid puzzle: the description of a new tribe, genus and species of gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) endemic to The Republic of South Africa

article by Johan Liljeblad et al published 31 March 2011 in Zootaxa

Andricus breviramuli Pujade-Villar n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini): New Pest of Oaks in Mexico

scientific article published in March 2014

Andricus forni Pujade-Villar Nicholls n. sp., a new species of oak gallwasp from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Andricus pseudocecconii sp. nova (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Iran ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 May 2022

Biological Control of the Invasive Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) - an Overview and the First Trials in Croatia

scientific article published in 2014

Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in cynipid oak galls in the West Palaearctic

scientific article (publication date: 30 April 2013)

Chalcid parasitoid community associated with the invading pestDryocosmus kuriphilusin north-western Italy

article

Check-list of oak gall wasps of Hungary, with some taxonomic notes (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipinae, Cinipini) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2000

Community impacts of anthropogenic disturbance: natural enemies exploit multiple routes in pursuit of invading herbivore hosts ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2010)

Concordant phylogeography and cryptic speciation in two Western Palaearctic oak gall parasitoid species complexes.

scientific article published on 8 January 2010

Current status of Andricus mairei (Kieffer), with synonymization of two species from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Current status of the oak gallwasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) fauna of the Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions

scientific article

Cynipid gall-wasp communities correlate with oak chemistry

scientific article published in January 2003

Description of Dryocosmus destefanii new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Quercus suber L. in Italy

scientific article

Description of Four New Species of Dilyta Förster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) from the Afrotropical Region

article

Description of Lobopterocharips arreplegata gen. n. & sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) from Nepal, with notes on its phylogenetic position

scientific article published in 2007

Description of the first species of gall wasp (Hym., Cynipidae: Cynipini) on Quercus grahamii (Fagaceae)

scientific article published in 2024

Description of the sexual generation of Callirhytis quercuscornigera and a new inquiline (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

scientific article published in 2002

Description of the sexual generation of Dryocosmus destefanii (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) and disclosure of its life cycle

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Early Parasitoid Recruitment in Invading Cynipid Galls

Eight new species of Cycloneuroterus Melika & Tang gallwasps from Taiwan and mainland China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

scientific article

Evidence for widespread cryptic sexual generations in apparently purely asexual Andricus gallwasps

scientific article published on 12 December 2007

Extreme host plant conservatism during at least 20 million years of host plant pursuit by oak gallwasps

scientific article published on 6 January 2009

First Record of Loxaulus Mayr from Mexico, with Descriptions of Two New Species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

scientific article published in June 2014

First record of an Andricus oak gallwasp from the Oriental Region: a new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 August 2009

Four New Species of Dryocosmus gallwasps from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

article

Four new species of Andricus Hartig oak gallwasp from Turkey (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

scientific article (publication date: 31 January 2014)

Gall‐inducing insects provide insights into plant systematic relationships ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1998

Global phylogeny of the inquilinous gall wasp tribe Synergini (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Cynipidae): first insights and establishment of a new cynipid tribe

scholarly article published in 2022

HYMENOPTERA: A new species of Disholcaspis Dalla Torre and Kieffer oak gallwasp from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article

HYMENOPTERA: New Atrusca gallwasp species from Baja California, Mexico (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article

HYMENOPTERA: New records and hosts of Kinseyella Pujade-Villar & Melika from Mexico, with redescription of K. lapiei ⬇️

scientific article

HYMENOPTERA: New species of oak gallwasp from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article

HYMENOPTERA: New species of oak gallwasp from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) – a serious pest of Quercus laurina (Fagaceae) ⬇️

scientific article

HYMENOPTERA: New species of oak gallwasp from México (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) -a serious pest of Quercus laurina (Fagaceae) ⬇️

scientific article

HYMENOPTERA: Re-establishment of Erythres Kinsey, 1937 as a valid genus of gallwasps from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) (In English) ⬇️

scientific article

Holocynips illinoiensis, sp. nov., a new species of oak gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) from the USA

scientific article published in 2023

Host niches and defensive extended phenotypes structure parasitoid wasp communities

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Life cycle of Disholcaspis quercusvirens (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with a description of the sexual generation

scientific article published in September 2013

Life history, natural enemies, and management of Disholcaspis quercusvirens (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on live oak trees

scientific article published in August 2013

Lifecycle closure, lineage sorting, and hybridization revealed in a phylogenetic analysis of European oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) using mitochondrial sequence data.

scientific article published in January 2003

Lithosaphonecrus edurus Fang, Melika, and Tang, a New Cynipid Inquiline Species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from Sichuan, China

article by Zhiqiang Fang et al published 23 October 2020 in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Molecular identification of Andricus species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) inducing various oak galls in Central Zagros of Iran

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Native and introduced parasitoids attacking the invasive chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus

scientific article published in April 2007

Network structure and taxonomic composition of tritrophic communities of Fagaceae, cynipid gallwasps and parasitoids in Sichuan, China

scientific article published in 2024

New Amphibolips gallwasp species from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

New Dryocosmus Giraud species associated with Cyclobalanopsis and non-Quercus host plants from the Eastern Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)

article

New herb gall wasps from Iran (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 June 2022

New species of Dryocosmus Giraud gallwasps from California (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) galling Chrysolepis Hjelmq. (Fagaceae)

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

New species of Nearctic oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

scientific article

New species of cynipid inquiline, Saphonecrus kuriphilusi (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), from Dryocosmus kuriphilus galls in Greece

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: 8 December 2015)

New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Synergus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from the Eastern Palaearctic

scientific article (publication date: 12 August 2015)

New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 September 2012

New species of herb gallwasps from the Middle East (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Aylacini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 August 2008

New species of oak gallwaps from Iran (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 February 2008

New species of oak gallwasps from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Non-native gall-inducing insects on forest trees: a global review

scientific article published on 07 June 2017

On Bothrioxysta colorata BELIZIN, 1962 and some other Charipinae species described by BELIZIN (Hymenoptera: Figitidae, Charipinae) ⬇️

scientific article

Pairing of sexual and asexual generations of Nearctic oak gallwasps, with new synonyms and new species names (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

scientific article published in 2022

Palaearctic oak gallwasps galling oaks (Quercus) in the section Cerris: re-appraisal of generic limits, with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 May 2010

Parasitoid Recruitment to the Globally Invasive Chestnut Gall Wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus

Parasitoids reared from galls of Andricus caliciformis, A. conglomeratus, A. coriarius, A. coronatus and A. lignicolus in Hungary (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) ⬇️

Phaenoglyphis villosa (Hartig 1841) (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae): a complex of species or a single but very variable species?

article

Phanacis neserorum sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aylacini): first record of a phytophagous Afrotropical cynipoid gall wasp

scholarly article by George Melika & G. L. Prinsloo published March 2007 in African Entomology

Phylogeny and DNA barcoding of inquiline oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Western Palaearctic.

scientific article published on 21 December 2009

Phylogeny of the parasitic wasp subfamily Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae)

scientific article

Population Dynamics of Native Parasitoids Associated with the Asian Chestnut Gall Wasp (Dryocosmus kuriphilus) in Italy

scientific article published in 2018

Range expansion and enemy recruitment by eight alien gall wasp species in Britain

article

Re-description and systematic re-appraisal of the genus Kokkocynips Pujade-Villar & Melika, (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including new combinations of Nearctic species and the description of a new species from Panama

scientific article

Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species

scientific article published in 2022

Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Feron Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including the description of six new species

scientific article published in 2023

Reconstructing community assembly in time and space reveals enemy escape in a Western Palearctic insect community

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

Reticulodermis lithogalla gen. nov. and sp. nov. of oak gall wasp from Mexico (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)

scientific article published in 2024

Review of the World Genera of Oak Cynipid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

Chapter in Parasitic wasps : evolution, systematics, biodiversity and biological control (2002)

Revision of the Amphibolips species of the 'nassa' complex from Mexico and central America (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Revision of the Amphibolips ‘niger’ group with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipini)

scientific article published on 30 October 2023

Revision of the Holarctic species of Dilyta Förster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) with descriptions of four new species from the eastern Palaearctic ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Revision of the genus Chilaspis Mayr, 1881 (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Cynipidae)

scientific article published in 2003

Sweet Tetra-Trophic Interactions: Multiple Evolution of Nectar Secretion, a Defensive Extended Phenotype in Cynipid Gall Wasps

scientific article published on 2 November 2016

Synonymy of two gall wasps: Andricus seckendorffi Wachtl and Andricus magrettii Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipinae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 1999

Systematic re-appraisal of the gall-usurping wasp genus Synophrus Hartig, 1843 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)

scientific article published on 22 June 2009

Taxonomic Status of Andricus corruptrix, A. amblycerus and A. ambiguus (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) ⬇️

scientific article

Taxonomic notes and type designations of gall inducing cynipid wasps described by G. Mayr (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

article by George Melika & M Bechtold published 2001 in Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien. Annalen. Serie B: Botanik und Zoologie

Taxonomy and biology of Andricus miriami (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)—a remarkable bud-galling Cynipid from the Middle East

scientific article published in 2015

The Asian chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus: a global invader and a successful case of classical biological control

scientific article published in 2018

The Description of Zapatella davisae, New Species, (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) a Pest Gallwasp of Black Oak (Quercus velutina) in New England, USA.

scientific article published in January 2016

The cynipid wasp collection of Gyula Méhes (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) ⬇️

The description of Alloxysta chinensis, a new Charipinae species from China (Hymenoptera, Figitidae)

scientific article (publication date: 11 April 2013)

The diversity and phylogeography of cynipid gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Oriental and eastern Palearctic regions, and their associated communities

scholarly article by Yoshihisa Abe et al published January 2007 in Oriental Insects

The fauna of cynipid oak gall wasps and their parasitoids in Lorestan province, Iran.

scientific article published in January 2006

The gall wasp fauna of Iran (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipinae): species checklist and biogeographical assessment

scientific article

The oak gall wasps of Israel (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)—diversity, distribution and life history

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

The phylogenetic relationships between Dryocosmus, Chilaspis and allied genera of oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae: Cynipini)

scientific article published on 14 August 2006

The phylogeographical clade trade: tracing the impact of human-mediated dispersal on the colonization of northern Europe by the oak gallwasp Andricus kollari.

scientific article published in July 2007

Three new Nearctic genera of oak cynipid gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini): Burnettweldia Pujade-Villar, Melika & Nicholls, Nichollsiella Melika, Pujade-Villar & Stone, Disholandricus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Nicholls; and… ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Time-since fire and cynipid gall wasp assemblages on oaks ⬇️

scholarly article

Torymus sinensis: a viable management option for the biological control of Dryocosmus kuriphilus in Europe?

scientific article published in August 2011

Tournament ABC analysis of the western Palaearctic population history of an oak gall wasp, Synergus umbraculus

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Two new Neotropical species of oak gall wasps of the genus Loxaulus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Panama ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Two new species of oak gall wasps from Turkey (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Using Gall Wasps on Oaks to Test Broad Ecological Concepts

article

Western Palaearctic phylogeography of an inquiline oak gall wasp, Synergus umbraculus

scientific article published on 28 January 2011

Paulina is supported by:

About Paulina

Help