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Tanaostigmodes

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

Tanaostigmodes Prinsloo & LaSalle 1995

Tanaostigmodes tambotis

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

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