Distribution
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Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. |
Biology |
Unknown. |
Diagnosis |
Similar to A. striaticeps, but differing in
the development of the antero-admedial signum struts: A. striaticeps
has these poorly developed, blending in with the rest of the mesoscutal
sculpturing; further differentiation requires males, in which the F1 of
the male antenna is deeply excavated in A. striaticeps; in A.
nicknacki the male F1 is not excavated. Anacharoides nicknacki
is differentiated from all
other Anacharoides in lacking multiple antero-admedial signum
struts per side (at least two per side in
A. paragi and A. quadrus), by
lacking strigae on the mesoscutum (present in A. stygius) and by
not having the central area of the mesoscutum shagreened (shagreened in
A. pallida). |
References |
Buffington,
M.L. & van Noort, S. 2009.
A world revision of Anacharoides Cameron, 1904 (Hymenoptera:
Figitidae) with a description of a new species. Zookeys 20:
245-274.
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
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Photographs
by
Matt Buffington
(Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS)
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