Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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Cynips hirta variety opima, new variety 
agamic form 
Figures 71, 382, 426 
FEMALE. — Rufo-piceous and black, often with the mesonotum 
largely rufous, the antennae almost entirely black; lateral lines prac- 
tically absent; wings averaging about 0.26 of the body in length; rather 
large and distinctly robust insects with much-swollen abdomens, the 
body 2.7 to 3.8 mm. in length. Figures 382, 426. 
GALL. — Nearly spheroidal, slightly ellipsoid; up to 3.5 mm. in 
diameter; the surface fairly smooth; on leaves of Quercus macrocarpa. 
FIG. 71. OZARK VARIETY OF CYNIPS HIRTA 
Possible extension of known range shown by shading. 
RANGE. — Michigan: Wayland. 
Illinois: Seneca (types, Kinsey coll.). Charleston and Green Valley 
in Tazewell County (Kinsey coll.). 
Indiana: Mongo, Delphi, Romney, Morocco, Rogers in Pike County, 
and Aurora (Kinsey coll.). 
Centering in more southern Indiana, Illinois, and possibly south- 
westward into the Ozarks; found northward into Michigan only within 
populations of the hybrid variety macrescens. Figure 71. 
TYPES. — 55 females and many galls. Holotype and paratype fe- 
males and galls in the Kinsey collection. Paratype females and galls 
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the U.S. National Museum, the 
American Museum of Natural History, and the California Academy. 
Labelled Seneca, Illinois; galls October 13, 1928; insects December 12 
and 20, 1928; Q. macrocarpa; Kinsey collector. 
