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Foersterella africana (Ferrière)

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

Cassidocida africana Ferrière, 1938. Syntypes in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Kampala, Uganda.
Tetracampe africana (Ferrière), new combination by Bouček, 1988.

Distribution

Senegal, Uganda.

Biology

Egg parasitoid of Aspidomorpha spp. (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), most commonly A. tecta Boheman (Ferriere, 1938) and A. quinquefasciata (Fabricius) (Boucek & Askew, 1968).

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.

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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