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Asparagobius Mayr

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

Asparagobius Mayr 1905. Type species: Asparagobius braunsi Mayr, 1905.
Asparagobius braunsi Mayr, 1905

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Phytophagous gall former on Asparagus striatus and Asparagus divaricatus.

References

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) – a biosystematic revision of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. C.A.B. International, Wallingford.

Mayr, G. 1905. Hymenopterologische miszellen. IV. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 1905: 529-575.

Credits

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

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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