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Eurytoma aloinae (Burks)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eurytomidae; Genus: Eurytoma)

Eurytoma aloinae (Burks, 1958).

 

 

Distribution Afrotropical region: South Africa.
Biology Seed predator of Aloe ferox (Prinsloo, 1980) and probably other Aloe species.

References

Gates, M. & Delvare, G. 2008. A new species of Eurytoma (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) attacking Quadrastichus spp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) galling Erythrina spp. (Fabaceae), with a summary of African Eurytoma biology and species checklist. Zootaxa 175: 1–24.

Lotfalizadeh, H., Delvare, G., & Rasplus, J.-Y. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of Eurytominae (Chalcidoidea: Eurytomidae) based on morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 151, 441–510.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1980. Annotated records of economically important Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from South Africa. I. Phytophylactica 12, 159–163.

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