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Eucoilinae

Eucoiline wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

Afrodontaspis Weld 1961

  Angustacorpa Quinlan 1988
  Cothonaspis Hartig 1840
  Ealata Quinlan 1986
Glauraspidia Thomson 1862
  Gronotoma Foerster 1869
  Hexacola Foerster 1869
  Kleidotoma Westwood 1833
  Nordlanderia Quinlan 1986
  Rhoptromeris Foerster 1869
  Sirenes Quinlan 1988
 

Stentorceps Quinlan 1984

Trichoplasta Benoit 1956

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Endoparasitoids of larva and pupa of cyclorrhaphous Diptera.

References

Fontal-Cazalla, F. M., Buffington, M. L., Nordlander, G., Liljeblad, J., Ros-Farré, P., Nieves-Aldrey, J. L., Pujade-Villar, J. & Ronquist, F. (2002). Phylogeny of the Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae). Cladistics 18, 154–199.

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.

Quinlan, J. 1988. A revision of some Afrotropical genera of Eucoilidae (Hymenoptera). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Entomology) 56, 171–229.

Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica Scripta 28:139–164.

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