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Grooca Sureshan and Narendran

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

Neoepistenia Sureshan and Narendran, 1995: 96; primary homonym of Neoepistenia Hedqvist (1959: 194–196). Type species: Neoepistenia coorgensis Sureshan and Narendran; by original designation and monotypy.
Grooca Sureshan and Narendran, 1997: 175. Replacement name for Neoepistenia Sureshan and Narendran.

Grooca species (Mozambique)

Distribution

Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Also Oriental region: India, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Gibson, G.A.P. 2003, Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 16: 1-339.

Sureshan, P.M. and Narendran, T.C. 1995. A new genus of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Coorg, Karnataka. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 92: 96–99.
Sureshan, P.M. and Narendran, T.C. 1997. Grooca, a new name for Neoepistenia Sureshan & Narendran (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Journal of the Bombay Natural History
Society
94: 175.

Credits

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


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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