(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Megastigmidae; Genus: Megastigmus)
Megastigmus helinae Roques & Copeland, 2016. Holotype in the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi (NMKE). Type locality: Kenya, Rift Valley Prov. Matthews Range, 1.1777°N, 37.3141°E, 1342m.
Female
Male
Photographs © Alain Roques (INRA, France).
Kenya.
Reared from fruits of Helinus integrifolius (Rhamnaceae). Photograph © Robert Copeland (ICIPE, Kenya).
Roques A, Copeland RS, Soldati L, Denux O, Auger-Rozenberg M-A 2016. Megastigmus seed chalcids (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) radiated much more on Angiosperms than previously considered. I- Description of 8 new species from Kenya, with a key to the females of Eastern and Southern Africa. ZooKeys 585: 51–124. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.585.7503
Photographs © Alain Roques (INRA, France) or Robert Copeland (ICIPE, Kenya). Map illustration © 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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