Xyela davidsmithi from the Sierra Nevada

Xyela davidsmithi Blank and Kramp sp. n. is described from the Sierra Nevada of California. Morphological characters place it into the X. alpigena group. Unlike other members of this group, whose larvae feed inside staminate cones of species of Pinus (Strobus), larvae of X. davidsmithi identified by COI barcoding have been extracted from staminate cones of P. (Pinus) jeffreyi.

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Field Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description USA, Canada
Taxonomic coverage
Family Xyelidae
Species Xyela
General taxonomic description Hymenoptera
Other info
Last Updated April 20, 2026, 16:42 (UTC)
Created April 20, 2026, 16:07 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name Stephan M. Blank
Organization affiliations
SDEI - Systematics and Biogeography

Eberswalder Straße 90
15374 Müncheberg
Germany
ROR ID: https://ror.org/https://ror.org/04zdqq152
Organization email:sdei@senckenberg.de
Website:https://www.senckenberg.de/en/research/institutes-overview/sdei/sdei-abt-systematics-and-biogeography/

Associated publications

Publication
Link https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.119.SpecialIssue.703

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project Occurrence data , Taxonomic data , Molecular Sequence Data
Estimated volume of created data Cannot estimate
Data will be stored at (long-term archived) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/e184e8dd-aef4-4671-879a-229e76fe0fd2