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Hydrorhoa Kieffer

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eucharitidae; Subfamily: Eucharitinae)

Hydrorhoa Kieffer, 1904: 241. Type species: Hydrorhoa striaticeps Kieffer, 1904, buy original designation.

Stibulaspis Cameron, 1907. Type species:: Stibulaspis fortistriata Cameron. Subsequently designated by Present. Synonymy by Heraty, 2002: 158.
Stilbulaspis; Schmeideknect, 1909: 68, 70, 75. Misspelling of genus name.

Hydrorhoa caffra (Westwood, 1874)

 

Hydrorhoa fianarantsoae (Risbec, 1952)

 

Hydrorhoa multistriata (Risbec, 1952)

Hydrorhoa stevensoni (Risbec, 1958)

 

Hydrorhoa striata (Risbec, 1951)

 

Hydrorhoa striaticeps Kieffer, 1904

 

Hydrorhoa striolata (Risbec, 1953)

Distribution

Afrotropical: broadly distributed across Sub-Saharan Africa. One single undescribed species known from Tanger, Morocco.

Biology

Host: Camponotus maculatus Mayr (Formicinae).

Reference

Heraty, J.M. 2002. A revision of the genera of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the World. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 68: 1-359.

Heraty, J.M. 2017. Catalog of World Eucharitidae, 2017. Electronic publication: https://hymenoptera.ucr.edu/EucharitidaeCatalog2017.pdf

Risbec, J. 1958. Chalcidoïdes nouveaux d'Afrique du Sud. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia No 22(B):147-162.

Credits

Photographs © Robert Copeland (ICIPE), or photographs © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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