''Striatoandricus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ...

gall wasps (Cynipidae). There are six described species, four of which were formerly included in ''

Andricus ''Andricus'' is a genus of oak gall wasps in the family (biology), family Cynipidae. Life cycle As in all Hymenoptera, sex-determination system, sex-determination in species of the genus ''Andricus'' is governed by haplodiploidy: males develop f ...

''. All species induce galls on

oak An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisp ...

s in which their larvae live and feed.

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Cynipidae Hymenoptera genera Taxa named by Juli Pujade-Villar {{wasp-stub