Atrusca conexa (Kinsey, 1936)

Figs 186–199

Synonymy
Cynips (dugesi) conexa Kinsey, 1936: 105, female, gall.
Atrusca conexa (Kinsey): Weld 1952: 314.

Types examined

HOLOTYPE female Cynips (dugesi) conexa “Taxco 8NE Gro 8000’, Mex. Gall 1.7.32, 61 fms. 4.2.32”, “Q. nudinervis, Kinsey coll.”, red “Cynips conexa, Holo- Paratype”, deposited in AMNH, NYC, examined by GM. Five PARATYPE females “Taxco 8E, Gro 8000’, Mex., galls 1.7.32, 61 females to 4.2.32”, “Q. nudinervis Kinsey coll.”, red label “Cynips conexa Paratype”, deposited in the general collection in AMNH, NYC, examined by GM.

Gall (Fig. 199)

Similar to galls of bella and dugesi complexes. Mature galls in part light yellow, in part rosy or rosy brown, conspicuously marked with numerous small purplish spots, sometimes with traces of a bluish puberulence, up to 18 mm, in average 13 mm in diameter.

Biology

The asexual generation is only known to induce leaf galls on Q. magnoliifolia (= Q. nudinervis). Galls mature in late autumn; adults emerge in April.

Distribution

Mexico: Guerrero

- VICTOR CUESTA-PORTA, GEORGE MELIKA, MAR FERRER-SUAY, ALEXIS VERA-ORTIZ, JULI PUJADE-VILLAR: (2025) Review of the Nearctic and Neotropical genus Atrusca Kinsey, 1930 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)^©