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Ferrieropria acantholepis Sundholm

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Diaprioidea; Family: Diapriidae; Subfamily: Diapriinae; Genus: Ferrieropria)

Ferrieropria acantholepis Sundholm, 1964: 107. Holotype: in Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva. Type locality: Harrar, Ethiopia.

Line drawings by Arne Sundholm, 1970.

Specimens from Zimbabwe and South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal ). Photographs © Victor Kolyada (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow).

Distribution

Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Found together with Acantholepis capensis canescens Emery (Formicidae).

Reference

Sundholm A. 1964. Ferrieropria n. gen. (Hym., Proct., Diapriidae, Diapriinae). Entomophaga 9: 107-110.

Credits

Photographs © Victor Kolyada (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow).

Line drawings by Arne Sundholm, 1970.

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

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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