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Epiclerus plectroniae (Risbec)

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

Tetracampa plectroniae Risbec, 1952. Misspelling for Tetracampe Förster, 1841. Syntypes in the Natural History Museum, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Tsimbazaza, Madagascar.
Epiclerus plectroniae (Risbec) new combination by Bouček, 1958.

Syntypes. A-O, general view of the two MNHN slides from Risbec's collection; upper side (A, C) and underside (B, D); E, F, the female indicated by a red circle in A and B.. Photographs © Alex Gumovsky.

Distribution

Madagascar.

Biology

Parasitoid of leaf-mining Diptera on Plectronia umbellata (Penaeaceae) and an Asteraceae species (Risbec, 1952).

References

Bouček, Z. & Askew, R.R. 1968. Hym. Chalcidoidea. Palearctic  Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae). In: Delucchi, V. & Remaudiere, G. (Eds.), Index of Entomophagous Insects 3: 1-260.

Gumovsky, A. 2016. A review of genera and described Afrotropical species of Tetracampinae (Hymenoptera: Tetracampidae), with description of a new genus from East Central Africa. Zootaxa 4111: 393-420.

Haliday, A.H. 1844. Contributions towards the classification of the Chalcididae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3: 295-301.

Credits

Photographs © Alex Gumovsky (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Ukraine). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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