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Anacharoides Cameron

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

Anacharoides Cameron 1904. Type species: Anacharoides striaticeps Cameron, 1904.

Identification keys

 

Anacharoides arcus Quinlan, 1979

Anacharoides astrida Quinlan, 1979

 

Anacharoides decellius Quinlan, 1979

Anacharoides elongaticornis Benoit, 1956

 

Anacharoides eurytergis Benoit, 1956

 

Anacharoides nigra Quinlan, 1979

 

Anacharoides pallida Quinlan, 1979

 

Anacharoides paragi Benoit, 1956

 

Anacharoides quadrus Quinlan, 1979

Anacharoides rufa Cameron, 1904

 

Anacharoides sanitas Quinlan, 1979

 

Anacharoides striaticeps Cameron, 1904

 

Anacharoides stygius Benoit, 1956

 

Anacharoides suspensus Quinlan, 1979

Distribution

Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegal, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Eritrea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa.  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen. Palearctic region: Canary Islands.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Cameron, P. 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from Dunbrody, Cape Colony. Records of the Albany Museum 1: 125-160.

Benoit, P.L.G. 1956. Figitidae - Aspicerinae nouveaux du Congo Belge. Revue Zool. Bot. afr. 53: 195-204.

Quinlan, J. 1979. A revisionary classification of the Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) of the Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region. Aspicerinae (Figitidae) and Oberthuerellinae (Liopteridae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 39: 85-133.

Credits

Photographs by Simon van Noort © Iziko Museums

Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages

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