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Megastigmus pretorianensis:
(a) body, in dorsal view; (b) body, in lateral view (c) head and
antenna, in lateral view; (d) antenna; (e) forewing; (f) propodeum; g-i:
male. (g) body, in lateral view; (h) body, in dorsal view; (i) antenna.
Photographs ©
Mikdat Doǧanlar (Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey). |
Distribution
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South Africa. |
Biology
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Inquiline or
parasitoid in leaf, stem and petiole galls induced by
the eulophid
Leptocybe invasa Fisher & LaSalle (Doǧanlar, 2015;
Gevers et al., 2020). |
References
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Doǧanlar M. 2015.
Diagnosis of Megastigmus spp. (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) reared from galls
of Leptocybe invasa Fisher & Lasalle, 2004, (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) on
Eucalyptus spp. (Myrtaceae), with description of a new species from South
Africa. Entomofauna-Zeitschrift für Entomologie 36: 561–580.
Gevers, C.R., Dittrich-Schröder, G., Slippers, B.
and Hurley, B.P. 2020. Interactions between hymenopteran species associated
with gall-forming wasps: the Leptocybe invasa community as a case study.
Agricultural and Forest Entomology
https://doi.org/10.1111/afe.12413
Huang, Z., Li, J., Lu,W. & Yang, Z. 2018. Parasitoids of the
Eucalyptus gall wasp Leptocybe spp.: a global review. Environmental
Science and Pollution Research 25: 29983–29995. 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
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Credits
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Photographs © Mikdat Doǧanlar (Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South
Africa). |
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