Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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Cynips fulvicollis variety canadensis, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 42, 244, 254 
FEMALE. — Body almost entirely black, with some touches of rufo- 
piceous, the antennae and legs entirely brown ; mesonotum largely smooth 
and naked in the center, sparingly punctate and hairy anteriorly and 
laterally; the hairy patch on the second segment of very limited extent; 
legs brownish to dark brown and piceous; wings small, averaging 0.40 
of the body in length, with only traces of veins in the terminal half 
of the wing; very small insects 1.7-3.0 mm. in length. Hybrids grade 
into the more rufous, more hairy, and larger insect fulvicollis. Figures 
244, 254. 
GALL. — As described for the species; often smooth, shining, and 
naked, with very little pubescence; the typical galls averaging about 
6.0 mm. in diameter; on leaves of Quercus alba. Rarely on Q. Michauxii, 
Q. Muhlenbergii and Q. macrocarpa in the more southern extension of 
the range. 
RANGE. — Michigan: Traverse City (types, Kinsey coll.). Bay 
City, West Branch (galls, Kinsey coll.). Owosso (Kinsey coll.). Pent- 
water (gall, F. Payne in Kinsey coll.). Interlochen (galls, R. Voris 
in Kinsey coll.). 
Indiana: Fort Wayne, Huntington, Nashville, and Clinton (Kinsey 
coll.). Morocco ( Q . macrocarpa, Kinsey coll.). Spencer ( Q . Michauxii, 
Kinsey coll.). 
FIG. 42. SUB-CANADIAN VARIETY, C. FULVICOLLIS 
Southern extensions of range effected by Pleistocene glaciation. 
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