Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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Cynips teres variety teres (Weld) 
agamic form 
Figures 28, 172, 190 
Xanthoteras teres Weld, 1926, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 68 (10) : 52, fig. 40. 
FEMALE. — Head and thorax, including the scutellum, rather 
bright rufous, darker rufous in only a few places; the abdomen mostly 
black but bright rufous about the hypopygium, the legs largely bright 
rufous; head wider than the thorax; the thorax small, no longer than 
high, only half again as long as wide; parapsidal grooves very fine, 
more or less indistinct in places; the anterior parallel and lateral lines 
more or less obliterated; the scutellum small, a little longer than wide, 
flattened, depressed anteriorly but with no other indication of a foveal 
groove; abdomen much enlarged, half again as long as high, the second 
segment short tongue-shaped, covering little more than half the whole 
area; wings much reduced, about 0.36 of the body in length, hardly 
longer than the thorax, with only the proximate remnants of the sub- 
costa and anal vein and the basalis; length 1.2 to 2.5 mm. Figures 172, 
190. 
GALL. — Shorter, more robust, up to 6. mm. in length, the stalk 
hardly longer than the swollen portion of the gall, the swollen portion 
quite spherical, well rounded at the apex; on leaves of Quercus g curry ana 
and its varieties. 
RANGE. — Oregon: Salem, Cottage Grove, Oakland, Wolf Creek, 
McLeod, and Siskiyou (galls, acc. Weld 1926). 
California: Scott Bar and Fort Jones (galls, acc. Weld 1926). 
Yreka (galls, Kinsey coll.). Pit River, and Cow Creek near Millville 
(galls, Leach in Kinsey coll.). At about 4000 ft. in Sequoia National 
Forest (above Cedar Creek Checking Station; types, Weld coll.). 
Probably confined to higher elevations in Central California, and 
to more northern California and adjacent Oregon, wherever Q. garryana 
and its varieties occur. The Oregon records north of the Rogue River 
may represent a distinct variety. Figure 28. 
TYPES. — 6 females and 11 galls. Holotype and paratypes in the 
U.S. National Museum, number 27200; paratypes in the American 
Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, Stanford University, 
and in the Kinsey collection. Paratype gall in the Philadelphia Academy. 
From Sequoia National Park, California, along the Giant Forest road 
above the Cedar Creek checking station; galls September 8, 1922, adults 
cut out November 13, 1922; Q. garryana semota; L. H. Weld collector. 
The holotype and four of the paratypes were used in making the 
above re-descriptions. 
This variety is as yet known only from galls and insects of 
the type collection, and from similar galls collected widely at 
higher elevations and more northern localities in California 
