Cynips dugesi variety pupoides, new variety
agamic form

Cynips dugesi var. B Kinsey

GALL. — As described for the species. Apparently not to be distinguished from other varieties of dugesi nor from Cynips bella congesta which occurs in the same region. On leaves of Quercus grisea.

RANGE. — Texas: Alpine and Fort Davis (Kinsey coll.) . Probably confined to the mountain ranges of West Texas (and adjacent New Mexico and Mexico?). Figure 44.

Insects were still emerging from the galls at Alpine, Texas, on December 14 (in 1919), and two days later at Fort Davis; but most of the emergence had occurred before that date. The two short-winged varieties of dugesi, namely pupoides and brevipennata , differ in head and thoracic color, in the angle of the parapsidal grooves at the scutellum, and in details of other structural characters. Pupoides is distinctly smaller than brevipennata. The two insects nearly agree in wing length and in several points of venation; and since they approach each other in their geographic location we may consider that they represent a distinct line of evolution from dugesi and its more typical varieties. The cynipid fauna of the mountains of West Texas is usually distinct from that of New Mexico and Arizona.

- Alfred Charles Kinsey: (1929) The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips^©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53516882#page/288/mode/1up