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Poropoea africana Foerster
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Chalcidoidea; Family
Trichogrammatidae; Genus:
Poropoea)
Poropoea africana Laudonia &
Viggiani, 2017. Holotype in Entomological collection of the Dipartimento
di Agraria dell'Università degli Studi “Federico II”, Portici, Napoli. Type
locality: Ogooué-Ivindo, Parc N. Ivindo, Station de Recherche de Ipassa, m
a.s.l 500; 0°30'43"N, 12°48'12"E, Gabon.
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Distribution |
Gabon. |
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Biology |
Egg parasitoid
of Paratomapoderus brachypterus (Voss) (Coleoptera, Attelabidae,
Apoderinae, Hoplapoderini), in leaf rolls of a species of Combretum
Loefl. (Combretaceae) (Laudonia et al 2017). |
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References |
Foerster, A. 1851. Eine Centurie neuer
Hymenopteren. Vierte und fünfte Dekade. Verhandlungen des
Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens,
Bonn 8: 1-42, 1 plate.
Laudonia S, Viggiani G, Biondi S. 2017.
A new species of Poropoea Foerster from Africa (Hymenoptera,
Chalcidoidea, Trichogrammatidae). ZooKeys 658: 81–87.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.658.11501 |
Credits
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Photographs © Stefania Laudonia & Gennaro
Viggiani (University of Naples Federico II).
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