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Eurytominae

Eurytomine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

  Aximopsis Ashmead, 1904
  Bruchophagus Ashmead,1888

Buresium Bouček, 1970

Eurytoma

  Eurytomaria Masi, 1943
  Ficomila Bouček, 1981
  Fronsoma Narendran, 1994
  Gibsonoma Narendran, 1994
Macrorileya Ashmead, 1904
  Paradecatoma Masi, 1943
  Philolema Cameron,1908
  Phylloxeroxenus Ashmead, 1888
  Plutarchia Girault, 1925
  Prodecatoma Ashmead, 1904
  Prodecatomoidea Risbec, 1952
  Risbecoma Subba Rao, 1978
  Syceurytoma Bouček, 1981
  Sycophila Walker,1871
  Tetramesa Walker, 1848
Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Phytophagous (as seed predators, stem feeders or gallers); or parasitoids of wide range of insects; or inquilines feeding on both the host insect and surrounding plant tissue.

References

Gates, M.W. 2008. Species revision and generic systematics of World Rileyinae (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 127: 1-332.

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, 1751, 1–24.

Gibson A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

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.

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