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Amphithectus areolatus (Hartig)
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family:
Figitidae; Subfamily:
Figitinae; Genus:
Amphithectus)
Sarothrus areolatus Hartig, 1840. Lectotype
in Lund (MZLU). Type locality: ?
Amphithectus Dahlbohmii Hartig, 1840.
Amphitectus Dahlbomi Giraud, 1860 (emendation
of species name, later considered to be in prevailing usage).
Figites piceus Dahlbom, 1842 (nomen nudum).
Melanips fumipennis Giraud, 1860. |
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Distribution |
Palaearctic: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia,
Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom (England) (Forshage & Nordlander,
2018). |
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Biology |
Parasitoid of Botanophila gnava (Meigen, 1826) and B. sonchi
(Hardy, 1872) (Anthomyiidae; in
many publications cited as Chorthophila, Phorbia or
Pegohylomyia) in Lactuca and Sonchus flowerheads
(Harwood, 1919; Wille, 1930; Blair, 1946; Fergusson, 1986; Kählert,
1990;
Forshage & Nordlander, 2018). |
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References |
Forshage, M & Nordlander, G. 2018. The identity of figitid
parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) of anthomyiid
flies in conifer cones. European Journal of Entomology
115: 104-111.
Mata-Casanova, N., Selfa, J., Pujade-Villar, J. 2018. The
true identity of Amphithectus austriacus (Tavares, 1928): junior synonym
of Amphithectus opacus (Thomson, 1862) n. comb. Butlletí de la
Institució Catalana d'Història Natural 82: 137-139. |
Credits
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Photographs © Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum
of Natural History).
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