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Distribution |
Kenya, Ethiopia, Réunion, South Africa, Zimbabwe. |
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Biology |
Reared from lepidopteran (Gracillariidae, Lyonetiidae)
leaf miners, including coffee and citrus leaf miner (Perry and Heraty,
2021). |
Diagnosis
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Zagrammosoma crowei
is the only species that possesses a dark transverse stripe on the lower and
upper face. This species also has three transverse stripes on the metasoma that
are not connected by a longitudinal stripe, which is typical of other species of
Zagrammosoma. The species has similar body patterns to Z. americanum,
Z. multilineatum, Z. occidentale, and Z. talitzkii, however, Z. crowei,
has a hyaline forewing with only the stigmal vein darkened, whereas the other
four species all have distinct dark patterns on the fore wings (Perry and Heraty,
2021). |
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References |
Boucek, Z. 1988.
Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of
genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. pp.
832pp. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd;
Aberystwyth, Wales.
Perry RK, Heraty JM. 2021.
Read between the lineata: A revision of the tattooed wasps,
Zagrammosoma Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with descriptions of
eleven new species. Zootaxa 4916: 1–108. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4916.1.1
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Credits
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Photographs
© Ryan K. Perry (University of California, Riverside).
Map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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