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Cynipidae
(redirected from gall wasp)

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Cynipidae [sə′nipĀ·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
A family of hymenopteran insects in the superfamily Cynipoidea.


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A biologist who spent the first part of his career as an unobtrusive cataloger of gall wasps, Kinsey was, depending on whom you ask, either the harbinger or the catalyst of the sexual revolution.
DURING THE FIRST 20 years of his career, Alfred Kinsey became the world's leading authority on the gall wasp, a nonstinging insect about the size of an ant.
From Harvard, he joined the faculty at Indiana and remained there for the rest of his life, first studying gall wasps and then sex.
 
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