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Prosaspicera species

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family: Figitidae; Subfamily: Aspicerinae; Genus: Prosaspicera)

Prosaspicera species

Identification keys
 

Distribution

 South Africa.

Biology

Parasitoid of aphidivorous Brachycera larvae (Syrphidae) (Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar 2006).

References

Ros-Farré P, Pujade-Villar J 2006. Revision of the genus Prosaspicera Kieffer, 1907 (Hym, Figitidae: Aspicerinae). Zootaxa 1379: 1–102.

van Noort, S, Buffington ML & Forshage, M. 2015. Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). ZooKeys 493: 1-176. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.493.6353

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)

Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) and Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum of Natural History) both played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages.
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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