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Distribution |
Cameroon.
The host, Bikinia letestui letestui, a canopy tree
of primary and older secondary rainforest, is known from the coastal
region of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon (Wieringa, 1999). If
O. nkoloensis is only associated with Gallastichus galls on
this tree species then its distribution would be expected to follow that
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Biology |
Either a parasitoid or an inquiline of
the leaf gall former
Gallastichus mutuus on Bikinia letestui (Pellegr.)
Wieringa subsp. letestui (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) (Rasplus et
al., 2011).
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References |
Rasplus, J.-Y., La Salle,
J., Delvare, G., McKey, D. & Webber B. 2011.
A new afrotropical genus and species of
Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera : Eulophidae) inducing galls on Bikinia
(Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) and a new species of Ormyrus
(Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) associated with the gall.
Zootaxa 2907: 51–59.
Wieringa, J.J. 1999. Monopetalanthus exit. A
systematic study of Aphanocalyx, Bikinia, Icuria,
Michelsonia and Tetraberlinia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae),
Wageningen Agricultural University Papers, Wageningen Agricultural
University, pp. 320. |
Credits
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Photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA).
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Next genus: Chrysolampus (Perilampidae)
Next species: Ormyrus sculptilis |
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