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Leptopilina
species (Kenya) |
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Leptopilina africana
(Kieffer, 1911b) (Rwanda)
Leptopilina apella
Quinlan, 1988 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar)
Leptopilina
ashmeadi Dalla Torre & Kieffer
Leptopilina atraticeps
(Kieffer, 1911b) (Nigeria, Seychelles)
Leptopilina
australis (Belizin, 1966)
Leptopilina boulardi
(Barbotin, Carton & Kelner-Pillault, 1979) (Democratic Republic of
Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Republic of Congo, Seychelles,
South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe; worldwide distributed species)
Leptopilina cavernicola
(Kieffer, 1913b) (Tanzania)
Leptopilina
clavipes (Hartig, 1841)
Leptopilina
decemflagella Lue & Buffington, 2016 (USA)
Leptopilina drosophilae
(Kieffer, 1913c) (Guinea)
Leptopilina dulcis
(Quinlan, 1988)
(Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar)
Leptopilina fannius
Quinlan, 1988 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Leptopilina faunus
Quinlan, 1988 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Leptopilina fenerivae
(Kieffer, 1910c) (Madagascar)
Leptopilina fimbriata
(Kieffer, 1901a) (Palearctic species, also recorded from Afrotropical
region)
Leptopilina freyae
Allemand & Nordlander, 2002 (Benin, Gambia, Kenya)
Leptopilina guineaensis
Allemand & Nordlander, 2002 (Benin, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Reunion,
South Africa, Sao Tomé)
Leptopilina heterotoma
(Thomson, 1862) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, St. Helena; worldwide
distributed species)
Leptopilina itys
Quinlan, 1988 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe)
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Leptopilina japonica japonica Novković & Kimura, 2011 (Japan) |
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Leptopilina japonica japonica Novković & Kimura, 2011 (Taiwan)
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Leptopilina
lasallei Buffington and Guerrieri, 2020 (China) |
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Leptopilina leipsi Lue & Buffington, 2016 (USA)
Leptopilina longipes (Hartig, 1841)
Leptopilina mahensis
(Kieffer, 1911c) (Seychelles)
Leptopilina maia Lue & Buffington, 2016 (USA)
Leptopilina minuta Ashmead
Leptopilina misensus
Quinlan, 1988 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda)
Leptopilina orientalis
Allemand & Nordlander, 2002 (Comoros, Madagascar, Réunion)
Leptopilina pacifica Novković & Kimura, 2011 (Indonesia, Japan)
Leptopilina pisonis
Quinlan, 1988 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Leptopilina syphax
Quinlan, 1988 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Leptopilina thetus
Quinlan, 1988 (Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa)
Leptopilina vesta
Quinlan, 1988 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Leptopilina victoriae
Nordlander, 1980
(Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Madagascar,
Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, Uganda.
Also Oriental:
Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand) |
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Distribution |
Worldwide. Afrotropical records: Cameroon, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Nigeria, Seychelles, South Africa,
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Quinlan 1986), Benin, Comoros, Gambia,
Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Republic of Congo, Reunion, Sao Tomé
(Allemand et al. 2002), Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central
African Republic, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, St Helena,
Tanzania, Yemen (van Noort et al., 2015). |
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Biology |
Well-known for attacking Drosophilidae in
various habitats (van Alphen et al. 1991; Buffington 2007; Buffington et
al. 2012; Girod et al. 2018; Lee et al. 2009; Novkovic et al. 2011; etc), including in
Africa (Allemand et al. 2002; Nordlander 1980). |
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References |
Allemand, R., C. Lemaitre, F. Frey, M. Bouletreau, F. Vavre, G.
Nordlander, J. van Alphen and Y. Carton. 2002. Phylogeny of six African
Leptopilina species (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea, Figitidae), parasitoids of
Drosophila, with description of three new species. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr.
38: 319–332.
Buffington, M. L. 2007. The
occurrence and phylogenetic implications of the ovipositor clip within the
Figitidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). J. Nat. His. 41: 2267–2282.
Buffington, M. L., S. Brady, S. Morita, and S. van Noort.
2012. Divergence estimates and early evolutionary history of
Figitidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Systematic Entomology 37:
287–304.
Buffington ML, Forshage M, Liljeblad J, Tang CT, van Noort, S. 2020.
World Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera):a key to higher-level groups. Insect Systematics and Diversity
4(4): 1–69.
https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixaa003
Buffington ML, Giorgini M, Lue C-H,
Formisano G, Cascone P, Forshage M, Driskell A & Guerrieri E. 2020.
Description of the aberrant Leptopilina lasallei n. sp., with an
updated phylogeny of Leptopilina Förster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae:
Eucoilinae). Journal of Natural History 54: 565-583.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1754483
Girod, P., Lierhmann, O., Urvois, T., Turlings, T., Kenis, M.,
& Haye, T. 2018. Host specificity of Asian parasitoids
for potential classical biological control of Drosophila suzukii.
Journal of pest science, 91(4), 1241–1250.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-1003-z
Lue, C. H., A. Driskell, J. Leips, and M. L. Buffington. 2016.
Review of the genus Leptopilina (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea,
Figitidae, Eucoilinae) from the Eastern United States, including three
newly described species. J. Hym. Res. 53: 35–76.
Nordlander, G. 1980.
Revision of the genus Leptopilina Förster, 1869, with notes on the status
of some other genera (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Eucoilidae). Entomol. Scan.
11: 428–453.
Novkovic, B., H.
Mitsui, A. Suwito, and M. T. Kimura. 2011. Taxonomy and phylogeny of
Leptopilina species (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) attacking
frugivorous drosophilid flies in Japan, with description of three new species.
Entomological Science 14: 333–346.
Quinlan, J. 1986. A key to the Afrotropical genera of
Eucoilidae (Hymenoptera), with a revision of certain genera. Bull. Br. Mus.
Nat. Hist. (Entomology) 52, 243–366.
van Noort, S, Buffington ML & Forshage, M. 2015.
Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). ZooKeys 493: 1-176. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.493.6353
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Credits
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Photographs © Warren H. L. Wong (Simon Fraser
University, BC, Canada), or
© Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS).
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