Kokkocynips doctorrosae (agamic)

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.

A new genus of oak gallwasp, Kokkocynips Pujade-Villar & Melika gen. n., with a description of a new species from Mexico (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)