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Paradiglyphosema Lin

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

Paradiglyphosema Lin, 1988

Paradiglyphosema species

Distribution

Mainly Oriental, but also extending into equatorial Afrotropics. Afrotropical region: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda.

Biology

Hosts not observed, but expected to be leaf-mining Agromyzidae (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). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 113: 239-290.

Lin, K.S. 1988. The Eucoilidae from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Journal of Taiwan Museum 41 (2): 1-66.

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.


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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