Kokkocynips doctorrosae Pujade-Villar. Six Nearctic 2013
Creators: name: Nieves-Aldrey, José Luis
name: Nicholls, James A.
name: Tang, Chang-Ti
name: Melika, George
name: Stone, Graham N.
name: Pujade-Villar, Juli
name: Buffington, Matthew
name: Maldonado, Yurixi
name: Medianero, Enrique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Cynipidae
Kokkocynips
Kokkocynips doctorrosae

description: Kokkocynips doctorrosae Pujade-Villar, 2013 (Figs. 5, 10B and 11A)
Kokkocynips doctorrosae Pujade-Villar, 2013. Act. Zool. Mex., 29(1): 211.
Material examined: holotype. Female (deposited in the collection J.P-V, UB), labeled as “ MEX, Michoacán, Carretera Federal Maravatío-Morelia, 19º54’22.91’’N 100º34’28.35’’W, 2391 m ” (white label), “Ex. Q. acutifolia, (08. xii.2011), 21.xii.2011 ” (white label); “ Holotype Kokkocynips doctorrosae desig. JP-V 2012” (red label).
Other material examined: 2 females, ex gall Quercus castanea, MEXICO, Oaxaca, Hunduchii. 2192 m., 08.xi.2008. Y. Maldonado leg.; Q. castanea, MEXICO, Oacaxa, Santa Catarina Ixtepeji, 10.vii.2012: 3♀, R. Clark leg. (MEX553, MEX 567); Q. crassipes, MEXICO, Mexico State, near to Santa Rita Tlahuapan, 18.vii.2012, A. Equihua-Martínez & E. Estrada-Venegas leg. (only galls: S350); Q. castanea, MEXICO, Michoacán, Federal highway Maravatío-Morelia, 14.vi.2019, JP-V leg. (only galls: C-C1); Quercus sp., MEXICO, Puebla, Tetela de Ocampo, 22.ix.2014, A. Equihua-Martínez & E. Estrada-Venegas leg. (only galls: S435); Q. crassifolia, Tetela de Ocampo, 15.vi.2018, JP-V leg. (only galls: S505); Quercus sp., MEXICO, Puebla, Chignahuapan, 25.vi.2016 & 27.vi.2016, JP-V leg. (only galls: S475, S476 S485).
Gall: the gall (Fig. 11A) is unilocular on twigs, nearly spherical, 8–10 mm in diameter, slightly flattened basally, with a smooth surface, lacking pubescence, yellowish with concentric 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), surrounded by a sponge-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 is inserted.
Host plant: Quercus acutifolia, Q. castanea, Q. crassifolia and Q. crassipes (section Lobatae within Quercus).
Biology: only known from an asexual generation.
Distribution: currently known only from Mexico. Originally recorded only from the state of Michoacan. New records from Oaxaca, Puebla and Mexico states added here extend the distribution of this species.
Remarks: K. doctorrosae can be easily distinguished from the other known species of Kokkocynips by the regular well-marked reticulate sculpture on the metasomal terga. Congruent with the morphological similarity of both adults and galls, this species is sister to the Nearctic species K. imbricariae in the multi-locus phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 1), and forms a close cluster with K. imbricariae and K. difficilis based on cytb distances (all just over 5% divergent; Table 1).
description: Published as part of 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, 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, pp. 205-232 in Zootaxa 4938 (2) on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4563818