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Figures: 24, forewing, female; 25, mesosoma, female; 26,
head, frontal view, female; 27 antenna, female; 28, antenna, male; 29,
ovipositor and middle tibia, same scale, female; 30, male genitalia. |
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Distribution |
Afrotropical region: South Africa. |
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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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