Ganaspidium Weld

Distribution

Afrotropical region: South Africa (van Noort et al., 2015). Also in Nearctic region: Western United States, southwestern Canada, and Northern Mexico (Buffington 2011).

Biology

Parasitoids of leaf-mining Agromyzidae in arid habitats (Buffington 2011).

References

Buffington, M.L. 2011. Description, circumscription and phylogenetics of the Diglyphosematini Belizin, 1961, and the description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 113: 239–290.

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

Credits

Photographs © Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).