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Afronympha eminpashai Gumovsky & van
Noort
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Chalcidoidea; Family:
Eulophidae; Subfamily:
Entedoninae; Genus:
Afronympha)
Afronympha
Gumovsky & van Noort, 2022.
Holotype in
Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality:
Uganda: Western Region, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere
University Biological Field Station, 1587 m, 0˚33.408’N, 30˚22.603’E,
30.vii–5.viii.2005, S. van Noort, Malaise trap, degraded mid-altitude
rainforest, UG05-M09, SAM-HYM-P067803 (SAMC).
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Afronympha eminpashai Gumovsky
& van Noort, female: A, B, D, holotype (Uganda); C, E, paratypes: C,
from DR Congo; E, from Uganda. A, C, E, habitus; B, wing showing wing
interference pattern (WIP); C, head and mesosoma in dorsal view.
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Afronympha eminpashai Gumovsky
& van Noort, female, head: A, C-E, head in frontal view; F, lower face;
B, head in dorsal view; G, head, view from below; H, lower face, view
from behind. C, D, holotype (Uganda); A, E-H, paratype (DR Congo).
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Afronympha eminpashai Gumovsky
& van Noort: A-C, male: A, habitus; B, head and anterior mesosoma,
inset: F2 with the sensillum ampullaceum highlighted by black arrow; C,
wings, mesosoma and anterior part of metasoma (transpleural suture is
indicated by white arrow); D, dorso-lateral mesosoma of female, SEM.
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Areas and
habitats where Afronympha eminpashai Gumovsky & van Noort was
collected: A, B, Uganda, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere
University Biological Field Station (the type locality): A, forest road
through the degraded mid-altitude rainforest; B, students on the
Tropical Biology Association 2005 course assisting with installation of
the Malaise trap; C-E, DR Congo, Mongbwalu mining area, the abandoned
building of "Mr Beguin’s house" and its surroundings: C, general view of
the disturbed landscape; D, filling the yellow pan (Moerike) trap (YPT)
using watering pot (AG); E, YPT in grass nearby the construction; F,
filtering YPT (Claude Dhendro).
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