Tanaostigma mulu van Noort

Distribution

Kenya.

Biology

Unknown.

Etymology

The species epithet ‘mulu’ is Swahili (a widely spoken East African language) for ‘heap’, referring to the heaped or humped appearance of the mesosoma in lateral view, and is also the first part of the name of the farm encompassing the type locality.

References

Gupta A, Joshi S. 2016. The first record of the genus Tanaostigma (Hymenoptera: Tanaostigmatidae) in the old world, with the description of a new species from India. Zootaxa 4193(1): 197–200. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4193.1.13

Howard LO. 1890. A new and remarkable encyrtid: is it parasitic. Insect Life 3: 145-148.

LaSalle J. 1987. New World Tanaostigmatidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 23(1): 1−181.
LaSalle J. 1997. Chapter 19, Tanaostigmatidae. In: Gibson GAP, Huber JT, Woolley JB, editors.
Annotated keys to the genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Ottawa (Canada): 525
National Research Council Research Press; p. 700–704, 794.

van Noort S, Copeland RS. 2020. First record of the genus Tanaostigma (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Tanaostigmatidae) from the Afrotropical region with description of three new species. Journal of Natural History 54: 703-722. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1746426

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or  © Robert Copeland (ICIPE).