Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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Haaren bedeckt, hinten gerade abgestutzt, die Furchen der Parapsiden 
durchgehend ; Schildchen ohne deutliche Griibchen an der Basis, Beine 
mit rauhen abstehenden Haaren versehen; Hinterleib an der Spitze mit 
zerstreuten Haaren (nicht wie bei Cynips mit dicht gedrangten, nieder- 
liegenden seidenartigen Harchen bekleidet) ; Fliigel mit einem stark 
verlangerten, am Vorderrande offenen Radialfeld, die 2. Cubitalzelle 
an der Basis desselben liegend. 
Typ. Dryoph. Folii - Cynips Folii L 
Translation. Dryophanta , new genus. Generic characters: Head 
with 5-segmented maxillary palps and 3-segmented labial palps, the 
antennae with 13 or 14 segments, roughly hairy, the third segment 
longer than the fourth ; the mesonotum punctate, covered with recumbent 
hairs, distinctly truncate posteriorly, the parapsidal grooves complete; 
the scutellum without the usual foveae at the base; the legs covered 
with a rough coat of erect hairs; the abdomen with scattered hairs 
anteriorly (not with the dense, recumbent, and silky hairs found in 
Cynips [= Adleria Rohwer and Fagan] ) ; the wings with a much 
lengthened, open radial cell, with an areolet lying at the base of that 
cell. Type : Dryophanta folii — Cynips folii Linnaeus. 
SUBGENOTYPE. — Of Cynips: Cynips folii Linnaeus. Designated 
by Westwood, 1840, Generic Synop.: 56. Morice and Durrant, 1915, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1915: 431, state that Lamarck, 1801, chose 
quercus-f olii Linnaeus as type of Cynips. Concerning this statement, 
Rohwer and Fagan, 1917, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 53:364, write as follows: 
“With this we can not agree as we do not believe that Lamarck or most 
of the other old writers’ examples are any more than illustrations of the 
various genera. They therefore can not be accepted as type designa- 
tions by the International Code, which says, ‘The meaning of the ex- 
pression “select a type” is to be rigidly construed. Mention of a species 
as an illustration or example of a genus does not constitute a selection 
of a type.’ — Whether the Lamarck or the Westwood designation is ac- 
cepted, folii remains the subgenotype of Cynips. 
Other designations of genotypes for Cynips are invalid: Diplolepis 
bedeguaris Fabricius (by Latreille 1810:436), Cynips quercus-radicis 
Fabricius (by Curtis 1840:688), Cynips argentea Hartig (by Ashmead 
1903) — all unavailable because none of these was originally included. 
Cynips gemmae Linnaeus (designated by Karsch 1880) is said by Rohwer 
and Fagan (1917) to be a doubtful designation, and in any event is a 
later designation than Westwood’s in 1840 (folii). Bradley, 1919, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. London 1919: 71, accepted the above-mentioned designation of 
bedeguaris by Latreille as fixing the type of Cynips; but Professor 
Bradley writes me (in litt. 9.15.28) that he now realizes that bede- 
guaris is not available because not originally included, and that he 
agrees with Rohwer and Fagan’s interpretation, which we accept in 
the present paper, of folii as the type of Cynips. 
Of Dryophanta: Cynips folii Linnaeus. Monobasic and original 
designation by Forster, 1869, Verh. zoo.-bot. Ges. Wien 19: 331, 335. 
Isogenotypic with Cynips. 
