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Distribution
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Madagascar. |
Biology
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Host: Maliarpha
separatella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Polaszek
et al. 1994). |
Diagnosis
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Moderately sized species; face ivory white, more or
less dark maculated medially; head white and black, mesosoma and
metasoma brownish orange with tergites 1–3 blackish brown, mesosoma
sometimes with black spots dorsally; face sparsely punctate, clypeus
smooth and transverse; mesoscutum densely
punctate-granulate, scutellum finely and
sparsely punctate; area superomedia 1.9–2.7 x longer than
wide; female femoral tooth absent;
ovipositor moderately long, apically sinuate; POL 0.7; OOL 1.1; CT 1.8;
ML 0.5; OT 1.5–1.7; FFT 0 (Rousse et al. 2013). |
References
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Polaszek,
A., Fitton, M.G., Bianchi, G. and Huddleston, T. 1994. The parasitoids of the
African white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella Ragonot (Lepidoptera:
Pyralidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 84: 65-90.
Rousse,
P. & van Noort, S. 2015.
Revision of the Afrotropical species of
Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with description of 31 new species.
European Journal of Taxonomy
124: 1-129.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.124
Rousse, P.,
Villemant, C. & Seyrig, A. 2013.
Ichneumonid wasps from Madagascar.
VI. The genus Pristomerus (Hymenopetra: Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae).
European Journal of Taxonomy 49: 1-38.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.49
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Credits
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Photographs by Pascal Rousse © Iziko
Museums of South Africa or by Agničle Touret-Alby ©
MNHN (specimens database http://coldb.mnhn.fr).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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Next genus: Ricrena
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