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Pulchrisolia Szabó
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Platygastroidea; Family:
Platygastridae; Subfamily:
Sceliotrachelinae)
Pulchrisolia Szabó, 1959: 395 (original
description); Masner 1964: 11 (treated as a synonym of Sceliotrachelus
Brues); Masner and Huggert 1989: 108 (description, species list); Vlug 1995: 73
(catalogued, catalogue of world species); Veenakumari, Buhl and Mohanraj 2019:
453 (key to genera of the Isolia-cluster, keyed); Lahey et al. 2019b: 42, 43,
44, 45 (description, key to genera of the Isolia-cluster, key to species). Type
species: Pulchrisolia maculata Szabó, by monotypy and original
designation.
 
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Pulchrisolia ankremos Lahey, 2019 |
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Pulchrisolia asantesana
van Noort & Lahey, 2019 |
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Pulchrisolia diehoekensis
van Noort & Lahey, 2019 |
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Pulchrisolia ellieae
Lahey, 2019 |
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Pulchrisolia maculata Szabó, 1959 |
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Pulchrisolia nephelae
Lahey, 2019 |
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Pulchrisolia robynae
van Noort & Lahey, 2019 |
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Pulchrisolia sanbornei
Lahey & Masner, 2019 |
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Pulchrisolia teras
Lahey, 2019 |
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Pulchrisolia valerieae
Polaszek & Lahey, 2019 |
Distribution
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Benin, Burkina
Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa,
Tanzania, Zambia. |
Diagnosis |
Fore wing with very short, tubular R vein terminating in a
knob and at least some microtrichia of the fore and hind wings in the
form of short, scale-like pegs; distinctive colour of the adult (most
species are yellow, orange, red, or a combination thereof); frontal
ledge present on the lower frons in all but one species; interantennal
process present, bilobed in most species; and tract of dense setae on
the metatibia. |
Biology |
Unknown. |
References |
Lahey Z, van Noort S, Polaszek A, Masner L, Johnson N. 2019.
Revision of the Afrotropical genus Pulchrisolia Szabó (Hymenoptera,
Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae). In: Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the
Systematics of Platygastroidea II. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73:
39-71.
https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.73.33876
Masner L. & Huggert, L. 1989. World review and keys to
genera of the subfamily Inostemmatinae with reassignment of the taxa to the
Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae).
Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada,
147: 1-214.
Szabó JB. 1959.
Notes on the new tribus Amitini with the descriptions of a new genus and some
new species of the Arctogaea (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Platygasteridae).
Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 51: 389-396.
https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24365
van Noort S, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Austin AD, Masner L,
Polaszek A, Johnson NF 2021.
Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline
parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds)
Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera
Research 87: 115–222.
https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.73770 |
Credits
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Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa),
or © Zachary Lahey (The Ohio State
University), or Andrew Polaszek (NHMUK).
Map illustration © Simon
van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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