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Biology |
Leaf gall former on Bikinia letestui (Pellegr.)
Wieringa subsp. letestui (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae).
Ormyrus nkoloensis is either a parasitoid or an inquiline. This
is the first recorded instance of a gall being induced in an extrafloral
nectary (Rasplus et al., 2011). |
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References |
Rasplus, J.-Y., La Salle, J.,
Delvare, G., McKey, D. & Webber B. 2011.
A new afrotropical genus and species of Tetrastichinae
(Hymenoptera : Eulophidae) inducing galls on Bikinia (Fabaceae:
Caesalpinioideae) and a new species of Ormyrus (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae)
associated with the gall. Zootaxa
2907: 51–59. |
Credits
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Photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA).
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