Amphibolips comini Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar, nom. nov.

Three days before the paper “Revision of the Amphibolips species of the ‘nassa’ species-complex from Mexico and Central America (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)” was published in Zootaxa, another paper describing three new Amphibolips species from Mexico was published in ZooKeys. As a result, two different species have been described under the same name, ‘Amphibolips kinseyi’. To solve this homonymy, a new name Amphibolips comini Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar, nom. nov. is proposed for replacing A. kinseyi Cuesta-Porta & Pujade-Villar, 2020, a junior homonym of A. kinseyi Nieves-Aldrey & Castillejos-Lemus, 2020.

Amphibolips kinseyi n. sp.

[Photos of this gall appear on page 44 of the pdf]

Gall (Fig. 16J). A relatively small, subglobose bud gall. The body of the gall reaches its greatest diameter near the middle, up to 20 mm in diameter. The gall is thick-walled, with lignified parenchyma, light brown when mature, with a smooth and naked surface; with spongious hard parenchyma internally; the hard-walled, ovate central larval chamber, with a mature length of 5.0–6.5 mm.

Host. Quercus crassipes.

Biology. Only females are known. Mature galls were collected in December.

Distribution. Mexico: Ciudad de Mexico.

Remarks. This species was collected by Kinsey in 1932 and it was never described. Deposited in the Kinsey collection at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) as an ‘unidentified Amphibolips’. Characters are clearly differing from any other Amphibolips species (see diagnosis)