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Biology - Only the asexual generation is known to induce bud galls at the tips of shoots on Q. petraea, Q. pubescens, Q. robur, Q. frainetto; Q. pedunculiflora (lonescu 1973), Q. dalechampii (Vassileva-Samnalieva 1985). Develops through the summer, matures in autumn. The adults emerge in June of the following year. Andricus gallaetinctoriae (Olivier, 1791), nomen dubium Diplolepis gallaetinctoriae Olivier, 1791: 280 Female and gall. Type lost. Cynips gallaetinctoriae (Olivier): Ratzeburg 1844: 56. Cynips tinctorium Hartig, 1843: 400 (unjustified emendation). Adleria gallaetinctoriae Rohwer & Fagan 1917: 359. Andricus gallaetinctoriae (Olivier): Benson 1953: 220. Andricus gallaetinctoriae (Olivier): Pujade-Villar, Bellido & Melika 2002. Nomen dubium. There has been a lot of confusions about the name "Diplolepis gallaetinctoriae'. It is probably due to the usage of vernacular names like "galle d'Alep", "galle du Levant", "galle d'Istrie", "noix de galle", etc. (see Kieffer 1897-1901: 566) in the commercial use of these galls. These names probably included more than one species. Moreover, the high morphological likeness of these species, both in galls and adults, the poor descriptions given by of some authors also contributed to enhance the confusion. For example, sometimes only the presence of protuberances on the gall surface was stated, while four species (A. infectorius and A. sternlichti sp. n. always present protuberances, while A. hispanicus and A. kollari occasionally have them). Thus, poor descriptions, given by some earlier authors, generated problems with correct displaying of some species. An additional problem is the using of several different names for the same species. Also the same name was used by one author for nomination of one species and later, other authors used the same name for other species and so a chain of misidentifications was generated, what further complicated the nomenclature of this species group. An example is the using of such names as A. gallaetinctoriae, A. tinctoriae, A. tinctorius nostrus, A. tinctoria var. nostras, A. kollari, A. hispanicus, A. indigena and A. infectorius. We try to solve all these problems in this study. Olivier (1791) described Diplolepis gallaetinctoriae as "a species with globular galls with protuberances"; externally rather similar to A. infectorius galls, which were described later by Hartig (1843). Andricus kollari and A. hispanicus galls are greatly variable, some of them with protuberances, while others without. However, the main difference between A. kollarilA. hispanicus galls with protuberances and A. infectorius is the internal consistence of the gall, and as Olivier did not mention anything about the hardness of the gall, we can't know to which of these two species it belonged to. However, the description makes us to think that this gall was