Kokkocynips

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Kokkocynips
Gall made by Kokkocynips rileyi on oak leaf
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

Species[edit]

The following species belong to the genus Amphibolips:

References[edit]

  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[edit]

  • 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.