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Echthrodelphax tauricus Ponomarenko
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Dryinidae; Subfamily:
Gonatopodinae; Genus: Echthrodelphax)
Echthrodelphax
tauricus Ponomarenko, 1970. Holotype:
female in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Bekily, Madagascar.
Echthrodelphax
hortusensis
(Abdul-Nour, 1976). Holotype:
Muséum National d'History Naturelle, Paris. Type locality:
Salisbury, Zimbabwe (synonymy by Olmi in Olmi & van Harten 2000).
Echthrodelphax
afer Olmi, 1984. Holotype: female in
The Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality:
Salisbury, Zimbabwe.
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Distribution
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Botswana, Cameroon,
Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Ivory Coast Prov., Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman,
Somalia, South Africa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Also Palaearctic region.
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Biology |
Hosts: Delphacidae
Delphacinae: Delphacidae Delphacinae (Guglielmino et al. 2013): in the
Palaearctic region: in France: Ribautodelphax imitans (Ribaut);
in Germany: Ribautodelphax albostriata (Fieber); in Italy:
Falcotoya minuscula (Horváth), Ribautodelphax imitans (Ribaut),
Laodelphax striatella (Fallén), Megadelphax sordidula (Stål).
In the Afrotropical region: in the Cape Verde Islands: Peregrinus
maidis (Ashmead); in Mozambique: Nycheuma endymion (Fennah),
Metadelphax propinqua (Fieber).
Natural enemies: Hymenoptera Encyrtidae:
in Mozambique: Cheiloneurus gonatopodis R. Perkins. This Encyrtid
is one of the most common natural enemies of Dryinids in Mozambique.
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References |
Azevedo C.O., Madl, M. & Olmi, M. 2010. A Catalogue of the Bethylidae,
Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae
(Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion. Linzer Biologische
Beitrage 42(2): 845-918.
Benoit, P.L.G. 1954. Monographie des Dryinidae malgaches (Hym.-Acul.).
Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifiques de Madagascar, Série E 4: 383-430.
Guglielmino A, Olmi
M, Bückle C. 2013. An updated host-parasite catalogue of world Dryinidae
(Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Zootaxa 3740: 1–113. doi:
10.11646/zootaxa.3740.1.1
Olmi, M. & van Harten, A. 2006. Dryinidae,
Sclerogibbidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of Yemen, with
revised keys to the species of the Arabian peninsula. Fauna of Arabia 21:
307–337.
Olmi, M. & Copeland, R.S. & Guglielmino, A. 2015.
An updated checklist of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae
(Hymenoptera) of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of thirteen new
species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55(1):
333-380.
Olmi, M., van Noort, S. & Guglielmino, A. 2016.
Contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Dryinidae, Embolemidae and
Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera) with description of new species from
Central African Republic and Uganda. ZooKeys 578: 45-95.
Ponomarenko, N.G. 1970. [New species of dryinids (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae)
in the European areas of the USSR]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 49:
423–433. [in Russian]
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Credits
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Illustrations
© Luca Palermo, or
© Nicolò Falchi.
Line illustrations
© Massimo Olmi (Viterbo).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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