Kokkocynips attractans (Kinsey, 1922) Nieves-Aldrey & Nicholls & Tang & Melika & Stone & Pujade-Villar & Buffington & Maldonado & Medianero, 2021

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, 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), pp. 205-232 : 226

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 .

Figures

FIG. 1. Majority-rule consensus tree of species sampled from across the Cynipini, based on a Bayesian analysis of a concatenation of three loci (cytochrome b, long-wavelength opsin, and the D2 region of the 28S rRNA gene). Black stars at nodes indicate ±95% posterior probability support; white stars indicate 70%-94% posterior probability support. The revised limits of the genus Kokkocynips are indicated by the grey shaded box.

FIG. 11. Galls of species of Kokkocynips. (A) K. doctorrosae Pujade-Villar. (B) Kokkocynips imbricariae (Ashmead). (C) Kokkocynips coxii (Basset). (D) Kokkocynips decidua (Beutenmueller). (E) Kokkocynips difficilis (Ashmead). (F) Kokkocynips rileyi (Ashmead). (G) Kokkocynips attractans (Kinsey). (H) Kokkocynips panamensis n. sp.