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Distribution |
Cameroon, Madagascar, Nigeria, South
Africa. |
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Biology |
Parasitoid
associated with immature stages of the aquatic ephydrid fly Hydrellia
egeriae, having been reared from puparia along with specimens of
Ademon lagarosiphonae,
Chaenusa
anervata and
Chaenusa seminervata and hence is potentially a hyperparasitoid
attacking the braconids rather than the fly (van Noort et al 2021). |
Identification Key
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Key to parasitoid wasps associated with Hydrellia
biocontrol agents of invasive waterweeds Lagarosiphon major and
Egeria densa
in South Africa (van Noort et al. 2021). |
Lucid matrix key |
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References |
Gumovsky, A., Bouček,
Z. & Delvare, G. 2006. New genera and species of Afrotropical Entedoninae
(Hymenoptera, Eulophidae). Zool. Med. Leiden 80-1 (4): 73-85.
Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In
GOULET, H. & HUBER,
J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families.
Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.
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
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Photographs
© Alex Gumovsky, or photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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