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Fuscicornia Risbec

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Platygastridae; Subfamily: Scelioninae)

Fuscicornia Risbec 1950. Type species: Fuscicornia bambeyi Risbec 1950.

Afrotropical species
 

Fuscicornia ardis Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (West Africa, Kenya, Tanzania)

 

Fuscicornia aulacis Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Madagascar)

 

Fuscicornia bambeyi Risbec, 1950 (sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Yemen)

 

Fuscicornia crista Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Somalia, Tanzania)

 

Fuscicornia eos Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (West Africa, Tanzania, Yemen)

 

Fuscicornia fortuna Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Madagascar, Yemen)

 

Fuscicornia paradisa Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar)

 

Fuscicornia skopelos Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Madagascar)

 

Fuscicornia sabrina Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Somalia)

 

Fuscicornia speculum Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Central African Republic, Madagascar, Nigeria, Uganda)

 

Fuscicornia spinosa Risbec, 1953 (sub-Saharan Africa, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen)

Indo-Australasian and Oriental species
 

Fuscicornia collaris Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (New Guinea)

 

Fuscicornia dissita Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Vanuatu)

 

Fuscicornia episcopus Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Thailand)

 

Fuscicornia fax Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Papua New Guinea)

 

Fuscicornia indica Mani & Sharma (Australia, India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand)

 

Fuscicornia koreica Choi & Kozlov (China, Japan, Korea, Philippines)

 

Fuscicornia plicata Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Sri Lanka)

 

Fuscicornia tehrii Mukerjee (Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand)

Distribution

Afrotropical, Indo-Australasian and Oriental regions.

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

Risbec, J. 1950. Contribution à l'étude des Proctotrupidaw (Serphiidae). Proctotrupidés des la Section technique d'Agricultures tropicale (A.O.Fuscicornia) et Proctotrupidés du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Afrique et Colonies françaises). Travaux du Laboratoire d'Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques, Gouvernement Générale de l'Afrique Occidentale Françaises. 639 pp.

Taekul, C., N. F. Johnson, L. Masner, Rajmohana K. and Chen S.-P. 2008. Revision of the world species of the genus Fusicornia Risbec (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Scelioninae). Zootaxa 1966: 1-52.

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