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Classification

Arachnophaga (Parasolindenia) tarsatus Waterston

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eupelmidae; Subfamily: Eupelminae; Genus: Arachnophaga)

Eupelminus tarsatus Waterston, 1916. Holotype in London (BMNH). Type locality: Monkey Bay, Malawi.

Distribution

Malawi, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Parasitoid of Glossina morsitans Westwood.

References

Gibson, G.A.P. 1995. Parasitic wasps of the subfamily Eupelminae: classification and revision of world genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 5: 421 pp.

Gibson G.A.P. 2017. Synonymy of Reikosiella Yoshimoto under Merostenus Walker  (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae), with a checklist of world species and a revision of those species with brachypterous females. Zootaxa 4255: 1–65. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4255.1.1.

Waterston, J. 1916. Chalcidoidea bred from Glossina morsitans in Nyasaland. Bulletin of Entomological Research 6: 381-393.

Waterston, J. 1916. Notes on African Chalcidoidea - V. Bulletin of Entomological Research 7(2): 123-132.

Credits

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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