Amphibolips kinseyi n. sp.

[Photos of this gall appear on page 44 of the pdf]

Gall (Fig. 16J). A relatively small, subglobose bud gall. The body of the gall reaches its greatest diameter near the middle, up to 20 mm in diameter. The gall is thick-walled, with lignified parenchyma, light brown when mature, with a smooth and naked surface; with spongious hard parenchyma internally; the hard-walled, ovate central larval chamber, with a mature length of 5.0–6.5 mm.

Host. Quercus crassipes.

Biology. Only females are known. Mature galls were collected in December.

Distribution. Mexico: Ciudad de Mexico.

Remarks. This species was collected by Kinsey in 1932 and it was never described. Deposited in the Kinsey collection at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) as an ‘unidentified Amphibolips’. Characters are clearly differing from any other Amphibolips species (see diagnosis)

- Victor Cuesta-Porta, Armando Equihua-Martinez, Edith Estrada-Venegas, David Cibrian-Tovar, Uriel Barrera-Ruiz, Salvador Ordaz-Silva, Imelda Virginia Lopez Sanchez, George Melika, Juli Pujade-Villar: (2020) Revision of the Amphibolips species of the 'nassa' complex from Mexico and central America (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)^©