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Lepidopria lloydi (Ferrière)

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

Abothropria lloydi Ferrière, 1935: 329, 338. Syntypes (10 females, 9 males) in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Mara Region, Buganbwe Island, Tanzania (as Tanganyika, Bugambwa).

Distribution

Tanzania.

Biology

Host: Glossina palpalis (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) (ex puparia) (Ferrière 1935).

Comments

Notton (2014) is of the opinion that this species may deserve a genus of its own.

References

Chemyreva VG, Yoon S, Ku D-S 2025. Revision of the genus Lepidopria Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Diapriinae) of the world fauna. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 98: 1107-1126. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.98.169802.

Ferrière, C. 1935. Les hymenopteres parasites des mouches tsetse. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 16: 328-340.

Notton DG. 2004. A catalogue of types of the smaller taxa of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with notes on the history of the insect collection of L.A.G. Bosc d’Antic. Zoosystema 29 (3): 457-470.

Notton DG. 2014. A catalogue of types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London. European Journal of Taxonomy 75: 1-123.

Credits

Photographs © Joseph Monks (NHMUK) and Ekaterina Tselikh (ZISP).

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

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