Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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The ancient history of Cynips is first of all to be read in 
the characters and distribution of the six existent subgenera. 
The range of each subgenus is shown on the accompanying 
map (fig. 7), and the data are further summarized: 
Subgeneric Ranges of Cynips 
Sub genus 
Species 
Range 
Cynips 
11 
Europe, Mediterranean Africa and Asia, possibly else- 
where in Asia. 
Antron 
12 
U. S. Pacific Coast, California-Oregon, undescribed 
species in southern Arizona. 
Besbicus. . . 
8 
U. S. Pacific Coast, California-British Columbia. 
Philonix . . . 
8 
U. S., Arizona-Atlantic Coast. 
Atrusca. . . . 
12 
Mexico; U. S., Arizona-Atlantic Coast. 
Acraspis. . . 
42 
Mexico; U. S., Arizona-Atlantic Coast. 
These subgenera clearly represent two groups, which may 
be distinguished as follows : 
1. Agamic female with hypopygial spine distinctly broad, very broad in 
Besbicus; wings normally 1.50 to 1.60 times the body length; all galls 
with nutritive, protective, more or less solid parenchyma and simple 
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