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Phanacis Förster

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea;  Family: Cynipidae; Subfamily: Cynipinae)

Phanacis Förster 1860

Type species: 

 

Phanacis hypochoeridis (Kieffer 1887) (introduced to South Africa)

 

Phanacis neserorum Melika & Prinsloo 2007

Reference

Melika, G. & Prinsloo, G.L. 2007. Phanacis neserorum sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aylacini): first record of a phytophagous Afrotropical cynipoid gall wasp. African Entomology 15: 185-191.

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