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Tanaostigmodes Prinsloo & LaSalle

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

Tanaostigmodes Prinsloo & LaSalle, 1995. Type species:

Tanaostigmodes tambotis Prinsloo & LaSalle, 1995.

Tanaostigmodes tambotis Prinsloo & LaSalle, 1995

Distribution

South Africa, Namibia.

Biology

Gregarious phytophagous gall formers on Spirostachys africana (Tamboti) (Euphorbiaceae).

Reference

Prinsloo, G.L. and LaSalle, J. 1995. A new species of tanaostigmatid (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from South Africa, that forms galls on tamboti. African Entomology 3: 7-11.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums).

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