It’s a case of The Monday Cynipoid Mystery Hour.

It looks like she at a podium and giving a lecture to her sisters XD

I ate some kokkocynips imbricareae gall tissues and it tasted like an apple peel. Not unpleasant but not exactly the most appealing flavor

Im only revising the North American taxa for now, and initially I didn’t expect the diversity to explode as much as it has. I was also nervous about having type specimens shipped overseas.

The type species is D. Rubi which was described by Bouche. I assumed it was in the German Entomological Institute, but I need to check their database to confirm.

Barcode data does show them splitting nicely into some clades by host association, but I have yet to find consistent characters to justify splitting them further. I’m also hesitant to split them as I don’t have access to type specimens for the genus.

Yea, I want the description for my eventual monograph to be more detailed as well. For that paper I mainly focused on providing a diagnosis from other Diastrophini.

It’s for my Diastrophus revision. I’m going to end up doubling the diversity of the genus, and I feel like each species within it is so unique that it is hard to come to a consensus on what is shared amongst all of them.

Ooooo. I love this.