Kokkocynips doctorrosae Pujade-Villar, n. sp.

Gall (Fig. 4). A unilocular twig gall, nearly spherical, 8–10 mm in diameter, slightly flattened basally, with smooth surface, lacking pubescence, yellowish with concen-tric circular red-brown lines, apically reddish-pink. The gall stays soft when mature, but not fragile. Larval chamber ovate, 1.4 × 1.8 mm, with thin walls (0.16 mm), sur-rounded by a spongy-like tissue, located in the centre of the gall. Exit hole usually located laterally. There is always a longitudinal crack in the bark where the gall was inserted.

Host plant. Quercus acutifolia (Section Lobatae of Quercus; red oaks), distributed in Mexico (states of Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Oaxaca and Puebla), Guatemala, Belize and Honduras (Romero-Rangel 2006).

Distribution. Currently known only from Mexico (State of Michoacán). Galls were collected between Maravatío and Morelia.

- J. Pujade-Villar, A. Equihua-Martinez, E. G. Estrada-Venegas, G. Melika: (2013) A new genus of oak gallwasp, Kokkocynips Pujade-Villar & Melika gen. n., with a description of a new species from Mexico (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)^©