Kokkocynips rileyi (Nieves-Aldrey, Nicholls, Tang, Melika, Stone, Pujade-Villar, Buffington, Maldonado & Medianero, 1896) Nieves-Aldrey, Nicholls, Tang, Melika, Stone, Pujade-Villar, Buffington, Maldonado & Medianero, 2021 is a animal in the Cynipidae family, order Hymenoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Kokkocynips rileyi is a species of gall wasp that belongs to the family Cynipidae. This species forms two distinct structures: a gall body and a kapello. The kapello is a fatty, lipid-rich appendage that attracts ants to disperse the gall, a function similar to how elaiosomes work on myrmecochorous seeds. Kokkocynips rileyi was originally classified within the genus Dryocosmus, and was later reclassified into the genus Kokkocynips.
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