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
Author
Nieves-Aldrey, José Luis
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, C / José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, ES- 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Author
Nicholls, James A.
CSIRO, Australian National Insect Collection, Clunies Ross Street, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia.
Author
Tang, Chang-Ti
Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, SEH, Suite 6300, 800 22 Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052 - 0001, USA. & Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH 9 3 JT, Scotland, U. K.
Author
Melika, George
Plant Health and Molecular Biology Laboratory, National Food Chain Safety Office, Directorate of Plant Protection, Soil Conservation and Agri-environment, Budaörsi str. 141 - 145, Budapest 1118, Hungary.
Author
Stone, Graham N.
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH 9 3 JT, Scotland, U. K.
Author
Pujade-Villar, Juli
Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Animal, Avda. Diagonal 645, 08028 - Barcelona (Spain).
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Buffington, Matthew
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS-USDA c / o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10 th & Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20013, USA.
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Maldonado, Yurixi
Author
Medianero, Enrique
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Zootaxa
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Kokkocynips attractans
(Kinsey, 1922)
n. comb.
Andricus attractans
Kinsey, 1922
. in:
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. His.
, vol.
46 p.
281.
Callirhytis uvellae
Weld, 1944
. in:
Proc. U. A. Nat. Mus.
, vol.
95 p.
23 [Syn. in
Dailey, 1969: 132
].
Dryocosmus attractans
(Kinsey)
:
Weld, 1951: 644
.
Callirhytis attractans
(Kinsey)
:
Dailey, 1969: 132
The molecular results placed one additional species,
Callirhytis attractans
(Kinsey 1922)
, within the same clade as species from
Kokkocynips
with 100% posterior probability support (
Fig. 1
). This is an interesting placement, as this species is known only from its sexual form, unlike other species in the genus. Accordingly, we transfer this species to
Kokkocynips
although we have not yet been able to study the
type
material. In the near future we hope to have the opportunity to re-describe this species.
Callirhytis uvellae
Weld
was synonymized with
Dryocosmus attractans
(Kinsey)
by
Dailey (1969)
but
Burks (1979)
did not mention this synonymy, which we consider to be a mistake. The galls (
Fig. 11G
) are unilocular, about
2 mm
in diameter and develop gregariously in spring on buds (
Dailey 1969
). The host oaks are of all the section Lobatae present in
California
,
Q. agrifolia
,
Q. kelloggii
and
Q. wislizeni
.