Holotype
female SANC-TYPH01928 (Pretoria) ex Hydrellia lagarosiphon
an aquatic leafminer on Lagarosiphon major.
Photographs and line illustration © Kees van Achterberg (Netherlands
Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden).
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Holotype
female
SANC-TYPH01928 (Pretoria) ex Hydrellia lagarosiphon an aquatic leafminer on Lagarosiphon major.
Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
Biology
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Aquatic
parasitoid of Hydrellia lagarosiphonae (Diptera: Ephydridae), an aquatic
leafminer on Lagarosiphon major (Hydrocharitaceae) (Coetzee et
al. 2011; van Achterberg & Prinsloo, 2012) and of Hydrellia egeriae (Diptera: Ephydridae), an
aquatic leafminer on
Egeria densa (Hydrocharitaceae) (van Noort et al. in press). |
Distribution
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South Africa. |
References
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Coetzee, J.A., Bownes, A. & Martin, G.D. 2011. Prospects
for the biological control of submerged macrophytes in South Africa. In: Moran,
V.C., Hoffmann, J.N. & Hill, M.P. (Eds) Biological Control of Invasive Alien
Plants in South Africa (1992–2010). 469–487. African Entomology (Special Issue)
19(2).
van Achterberg, C. & Prinsloo, G.L. 2012. Braconidae
(Hymenoptera: Opiinae, Alysiinae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining Diptera on
Lagarosiphon major (Hydrocharitaceae) in South Africa. African
Entomology 20: 124–133.
van Noort S, Smith R, Coetzee JA. 2021.
Identity of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae and Eulophidae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) on invasive Brazilian waterweed
Egeria densa in South Africa. African Invertebrates 62: 287–314.
https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.62.62842 |
Credits
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Photographs and line illustration © Kees van Achterberg
(Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden), or photographs © Simon
van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Map Illustration © Simon van Noort
(Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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