Ademon lagarosiphonae van Achterberg

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Opiinae; Genus: Ademon)

Ademon lagarosiphonae van Achterberg, 2012. Holotype: in South African National Collection of Insects, ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria (SANC). Type Locality: Lydenburg, 25°11’S 30°48’E, South Africa.

Holotype female SANC-TYPH01926 (Pretoria) ex Hydrellia lagarosiphon an aquatic leafminer on Lagarosiphon major. Photographs and line illustration © Kees van Achterberg (Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden).





Holotype female SANC-TYPH01926 (Pretoria) ex Hydrellia lagarosiphon an aquatic leafminer on Lagarosiphon major. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).







Paratype female SANC (Pretoria) ex Hydrellia lagarosiphon an aquatic leafminer on Lagarosiphon major. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Paratype male SANC (Pretoria) ex Hydrellia lagarosiphon an aquatic leafminer on Lagarosiphon major. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Non-type female SAM-HYM-P092756 in SAMC ex Hydrellia egeriae an aquatic leafminer on Egeria densa. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).







Non-type female SAM-HYM-P092796 in SAMC ex Hydrellia egeriae an aquatic leafminer on Egeria densa, illustrating intermediate colour form. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Non-type female SAM-HYM-P092744 in SAMC ex Hydrellia egeriae an aquatic leafminer on Egeria densa, illustrating intermediate colour form. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Biology	Aquatic parasitoid of Hydrellia lagarosiphonae (Diptera: Ephydridae), an aquatic leafminer on Lagarosiphon major (Hydrocharitaceae) (Coetzee et al. 2011; van Achterberg & Prinsloo, 2012) and of Hydrellia egeriae (Diptera: Ephydridae), an aquatic leafminer on Egeria densa (Hydrocharitaceae) (van Noort et al. in press).
Distribution	South Africa.
References	Coetzee, J.A., Bownes, A. & Martin, G.D. 2011. Prospects for the biological control of submerged macrophytes in South Africa. In: Moran, V.C., Hoffmann, J.N. & Hill, M.P. (Eds) Biological Control of Invasive Alien Plants in South Africa (1992–2010). 469–487. African Entomology (Special Issue) 19(2). Fischer, M. 1971. Index of entomophagous insects, Hym., Braconidae, World Opiinae. Le François, Paris, France. 189 pp. Fischer, M. 1972. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae I) Das Tiereich 91, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xii + 620 pp. Fischer, M. 1977. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae II-Amerika). Das Tiereich 91, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xxvii + 1001 pp Fischer, M. 1987. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae III-äthiopische, orientalische, autralische und oceanische Region. Das Tierreich 104, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xv + 734 pp. van Achterberg, C. & Prinsloo, G.L. 2012. Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Opiinae, Alysiinae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining Diptera on Lagarosiphon major (Hydrocharitaceae) in South Africa. African Entomology 20: 124–133. van Noort S, Smith R, Coetzee JA. 2021. Identity of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae and Eulophidae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) on invasive Brazilian waterweed Egeria densa in South Africa. African Invertebrates 62: 287–314. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.62.62842
Credits	Photographs and line illustration © Kees van Achterberg (Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden), or photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). Map Illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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