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Trichoplasta Benoit

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

Trichoplasta Benoit 1956.

 

Trichoplasta bicolor Quinlan, 1986 (South Africa)

  Trichoplasta brevispina (Masner, 1960) (Kenya, Zimbabwe)
  Trichoplasta conica Quinlan, 1986 (Nigeria, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya)
  Trichoplasta contrasta Quinlan, 1986 (Nigeria, Zaire)
  Trichoplasta equalis Quinlan, 1986 (Nigeria, Zaire)
  Trichoplasta extensus Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire)
  Trichoplasta filiformis Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire, South Africa)
  Trichoplasta gracilicornis Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire, South Africa)
  Trichoplasta longispina Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire)
 

Trichoplasta medlia Quinlan, 1986 (Nigeria, Zaire)

  Trichoplasta narrata Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire, Uganda)
 

Trichoplasta novema Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire, Uganda)

  Trichoplasta octonarius Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire)
  Trichoplasta quinclava Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire)
  Trichoplasta rufus Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire, Madagascar)
Trichoplasta tanganyikensis (Weld, 1944) (Cameroon, Zaire, Rwanda, Tanzania)
  Trichoplasta testacea Quinlan, 1986 (Nigeria)
  Trichoplasta unicolora Quinlan, 1986 (Zaire)
 

Trichoplasta zeus Quinlan, 1986 (Cameroon)

Distribution

Worldwide, except for Neotropical region.

Biology

Unknown

References

Quinlan, J. 1986. A key to the Afrotropical genera of Eucoilidae (Hymenoptera), with a revision of certain genera. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Entomology) 52, 243–366.

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