Kokkocynips

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Kokkocynips
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Gall made by Kokkocynips rileyi on oak leaf
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Tribe: Cynipini
Genus: Kokkocynips
Pujade-Villar & Melika, 2013

Kokkocynips is an American genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are about 8 described species in the genus Kokkocynips with several others still undescribed. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Species

The following species belong to the genus Kokkocynips:

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The Cynipoidea are a moderate-sized hymenopteran superfamily that presently includes seven extant families and three extinct families, though others have been recognized in the past. The most familiar members of the group are phytophagous, especially as gall-formers, though the actual majority of included species are parasitoids or hyperparasitoids. They are typically glossy, dark, smooth wasps with somewhat compressed bodies and somewhat reduced wing venation. It is common for various metasomal segments to be fused in various ways, and the petiole is very short, when present.

<i>Andricus</i> Genus of wasps

Andricus is a genus of oak gall wasps in the family Cynipidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cynipini</span> Tribe of wasps

Cynipini is a tribe of gall wasps. These insects induce galls in plants of the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. They are known commonly as the oak gall wasps. It is the largest cynipid tribe, with about 936 to 1000 recognized species, most of which are associated with oaks. The tribe is mainly native to the Holarctic.

Coffeikokkos is a genus of gall wasp.

Aphelonyx is a genus of oak gall wasps in the family Cynipidae, comprising three known species:

<i>Atrusca</i> Genus of wasps

Atrusca is a genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. It consists of approximately 50 species, and is found in North and Central America.

Bassettia is a genus of gall wasps found in North America.

Synergini is a tribe of gall wasps in the subfamily Cynipinae.

<i>Amphibolips</i> Genus of wasps

Amphibolips is an American genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are about 57 described species in the genus Amphibolips with several others still undescribed.

<i>Heteroecus</i> Genus of wasps

Heteroecus is a genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are about seven described species in the genus Heteroecus.

<i>Disholcaspis</i> Genus of gall wasps

Disholcaspis is a genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are more than 40 species described in the genus Disholcaspis. Some Disholcaspis species induce galls that produce honeydew, a sweet liquid that attracts yellow jackets, ants, and bees. These insects then protect the galls from parasitic wasps.

<i>Callirhytis</i> Genus of wasps

Callirhytis is a genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae. There are more than 90 described species in Callirhytis. Wasps in this genus primarily induce wasps on oak trees in North America.

Striatoandricus is a genus of Neotropical gall wasps (Cynipidae). There are six described species, four of which were formerly included in Andricus. All species induce galls on oaks in which their larvae live and feed.

<i>Phylloteras</i> Genus of wasps

Phylloteras is a North American genus of gall wasps in the family Cynipidae, tribe Cynipini .

<i>Burnettweldia</i> Genus of insects

Burnettweldia is a genus of oak gall wasps in the Nearctic.

<i>Burnettweldia plumbella</i> Species of insect

Burnettweldia plumbella, also known as the beaked twig gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp. Previously in the genus Disholcaspis, it was moved into a new genus, Burnettweldia, in 2021. This wasp induces galls on oak trees, including blue oak, leather oak, Muller's oak, and scrub oaks. The galls are up to 15 mm in diameter and brightly colored, coming in either red with yellow spots or green with yellow spots. Their name comes from the galls' pointed tip. Galls are formed in spring and summer, and adults emerge from them in November and December. The adult wasps are 3–4 mm in length.

<i>Acraspis guadaloupensis</i> North American gall-inducing wasp

Acraspis guadaloupensis is a relatively uncommon species of cynipid wasp that produces galls on intermediate oaks. The intermediate oak disc wasp was first described in 1911 and has been moved between genera more than once. Distribution is limited to California in North America. The flattened galls appear on leaves of Quercus chrysolepis, the canyon live oak.

<i>Besbicus</i> (wasp) Genus of wasps

Besbicus is a genus of gall-inducing cynipid wasp found in North America. Several species now classed as Besbicus were formerly considered to be a part of the genus Cynips. Besbicus was originally described as a subgenus by Alfred Kinsey in 1929. Circa 2010, one group of entomologists noted that it was "possible that the nearctic genera Antron and Besbicus were erroneously synonymized to Cynips".

<i>Paracraspis</i> Genus of insects

Paracraspis is a genus of oak gall wasps in the Nearctic. It was established by Lewis Hart Weld in 1952, then re-established in 2021.

References

  1. Nieves-Aldrey, José Luis; Nicholls, James A.; Tang, Chang-Ti; Melika, George; Stone, Graham N.; Pujade-Villar, Juli; Buffington, Matthew; Maldonado, Yurixi; Medianero, Enrique (2021-02-26). "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". Zootaxa. 4938 (2): zootaxa.4938.2.3. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4938.2.3. hdl: 10261/244882 . ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   33756979. S2CID   232339085.
  2. Pujade-Villar, J.; Equihua-Martínez, A.; Estrada-Venegas, E. G.; Melika, G. (April 2013). "A new genus of oak gallwasp, kokkocynips Pujade-Villar & Melika gen. n., with a description of a new species from Mexico (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)". Acta Zoológica Mexicana. 29 (1): 209–218. doi: 10.21829/azm.2013.291396 .
  3. "Kokkocynips". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-25.

Further reading

  • Melika, G.; Abrahamson, W. G. (2002). Melika, G.; Thuroczy, C. (eds.). Review of the world genera of oak cynipid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini Latreille, 1802). Parasitic Wasps: Evolution, Systematics, Biodiversity and Biological Control. Angroinform. pp. 150–190. ISBN   978-963-502-765-1.
  • Ronquist, Fredrik (1999). "Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea". Zoologica Scripta. 28 (1–2): 139–164. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.1999.00022.x. S2CID   86539477.
  • Weld, Lewis H. (1959). Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States. Privately printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.