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Thoreauella Girault
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family:
Figitidae; Subfamily:
Emargininae)
Thoreauella Girault, 1930. Type species: Thoreauella amatrix Girault,
1930.
Bothrocynips Díaz, 1978 (synonymy by van Noort et al. 2015)
Emargo
Weld, 1960 (synonymy by van Noort et al. 2015)
Weldiola Kovalev, 1994 (synonymy by van Noort et al. 2015)
Quinlania Kovalev, 1994 (synonymy by van Noort et al. 2015)
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Thoreauella ascia (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella cantus (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella capito (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella laverna (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella matius (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella micipsa (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella numa
(Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella palloris (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella peleus (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella pexa
(Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella themis (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella vacuna (Quinlan, 1988) |
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Thoreauella species |
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Distribution |
Pantropical,
especially diverse in Madagascar. Afrotropical records: Cameroon,
Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Madagascar,
Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
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Biology |
Unknown (Buffington et al. 2012), possibly
associated with ants (Weld, 1960; Díaz, 1978), adults have been
collected from formicid refuse piles (Weld, 1951). |
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References |
Buffington ML, Brady S, Morita S, van Noort S. 2012.
Divergence estimates and early evolutionary history of
Figitidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Systematic Entomology 37:
287–304.
Díaz NB. 1978. Estudio
ecológico y sistemático de cinipoideos neotropicales IV (Hymenoptera:
Cynipidae). Neotropica 24: 123–125.
Girault AA. 1930. New pests
from Australia, IX. 2 pp. Brisbane, December 29th, 1930.
Kovalev OV. 1994.
[Paleontological history, phylogeny, and systematics of
Brachycleistogastromorpha, Infraorder N., and Cynipomorpha infraorder N.
(Hymenoptera) with descriptions of new fossil and recent families,
subfamilies and genera]. Entomologicheskoe obozienie 73: 385–426.
[In Russian].
Ronquist, F.
1999.
Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica
Scripta 28:139–164.
van Noort, S, Buffington ML & Forshage, M. 2015.
Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). ZooKeys 493: 1-176. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.493.6353
Weld LH. 1960. A new genus
in Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society
of Washington 62: 195–196.
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Credits
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Photographs ©
Matt Buffington
(Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS)
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