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Cynips
Cynips longiventris parthenogenetic generation gall
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Cynipidae
Tribe: Cynipini
Genus: Cynips
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

about 39, see text

Synonyms

Besbicus Kinsey, 1930
Dryophanta Forster, 1869

Cynips is a genus of gall wasps in the tribe Cynipini, the oak gall wasps. One of the best known is the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii), which induces characteristic spherical galls about two centimeters wide on the undersides of oak leaves.

As of 2008, there are about 39 species in this genus.[1]

Some authors have included Antron in Cynips but it was recently resurrected as a distinct genus.[2]

Species

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Former species

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The wasp formerly named Cynips saltatorius is now named Neuroterus saltatorius.[5]

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