Distribution
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Afrotropical region: Mozambique,
Zimbabwe. Also Palaearctic region |
Biology
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Egg parasitoids of Curculionidae (Coleoptera). The two Palaearctic
species: Caenocrepis arenicola
attacks the eggs of
Pachycerus madidus (Olivier 1807), C. bothynoderi
attacks the eggs of
Asproparthenis punctiventris
(Germar 1824) and possibly Pachycerus segnis
(Germar 1824) (Noyes 2012). |
References
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Mitroiu M.D. 2012.
The genus Caenocrepis Thomson
(Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in the Afrotropical region, with a key to world
species. Zootaxa 3557: 49–55.
Noyes, J.S. 2012. Universal Chalcidoidea Database, Natural
History Museum London. Available from: www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index.html.
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Credits
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Photographs © Mircea-Dan Mitroiu (Faculty of Biology,
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, ROMANIA) first published in
Zootaxa (Mitroiu, 2012). |
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Callitula |
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