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Megastigmus hypogeus (Hussey)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Megastigmidae; Genus: Megastigmus)

Eumegastigmus hypogeus Hussey, 1956. Holotype in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Kenya, Nairobi.

Female

Male pale form

 

Male dark form

Photographs © Alain Roques (INRA, France).

Distribution

Kenya.

Biology

Reared from fruits of Ozoroa obovata (left), Ozoroa insignis ssp reticulata (right) (Anacardiaceae). Photographs © Robert Copeland (ICIPE, Kenya).

References

Roques A, Copeland RS, Soldati L, Denux O, Auger-Rozenberg M-A 2016. Megastigmus seed chalcids (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) radiated much more on Angiosperms than previously considered. I- Description of 8 new species from Kenya, with a key to the females of Eastern and Southern Africa. ZooKeys 585: 51–124. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.585.7503

Credits

Photographs © Alain Roques (INRA, France) or Robert Copeland (ICIPE, Kenya). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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