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Figures: 31, forewing, female; 32, antenna, female; 33,
antenna, male; 34, mesosoma, female; 35, head, frontal view, female; 36,
ovipositor and middle tibia, same scale, female; 37, male genitalia. |
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Distribution |
Afrotropical region: South Africa, Tanzania. |
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Biology |
Probably a parasitoid of Quadrastichus gallicola
and Q. bardus, having been reared in association with both
species (Prinsloo & Kelly, 2009). Laboratory studies have shown that
Tanzanian stock of A. nitens are primary parasitoids of
Q. erythrinae Kim (La Salle et al. 2009). |
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References |
Gates, M. & Delvare, G. 2008.
A new species of Eurytoma
(Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) attacking Quadrastichus spp.
(Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) galling Erythrina spp. (Fabaceae), with
a summary of African Eurytoma biology and species checklist.
Zootaxa 175: 1–24.
Kim, I.-K., Delvare, G. & La Salle, J. 2004. A new species of
Quadrastichus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae): a gall inducing pest on
Erythrina spp. (Fabaceae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research
13: 243–249.
La Salle, J., Ramadan, M. & Kumashiro, B.R. 2009.
A new
parasitoid of the Erythrina Gall Wasp, Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim
(Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Zootaxa 2083: 19–26.
Prinsloo, G. L. & Kelly, J.A. 2009.
The tetrastichine
wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) associated with galls on
Erythrina species (Fabaceae) in South Africa, with the description of five
new species. Zootaxa 2083: 27–45. |
Credits
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Illustrations
© Gerhard Prinsloo & Janine Kelly (ARC).
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