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Foersterella
Dalla Torre
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Chalcidoidea; Family:
Tetracampidae)
Hyperbius Förster, 1878. Type species:
Tetracampe flavipes Förster. Junior synonym of Pteromalus reptans
Nees, 1834); by original designation. Name preoccupied by Hyperbius
Stal, 1867 (Hemiptera, Acanthosomatidae).
Foersterella DaIla Torre, 1897: 86. Replacement name for
Hyperbius Förster. |
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Distribution |
Senegal, Uganda. |
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Biology |
Egg parasitoid of Aspidomorpha spp. (Chrysomelidae,
Cassidinae), most commonly A. tecta Boheman (Ferriere, 1938) and
A. quinquefasciata (Fabricius) (Boucek & Askew, 1968). |
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References |
Bouček, Z. &
Askew, R.R. 1968. Hym. Chalcidoidea. Palearctic Eulophidae
(excl. Tetrastichinae). In: Delucchi, V. & Remaudiere, G. (Eds.),
Index of Entomophagous Insects 3: 1-260.
Gumovsky, A. 2016.
A review of genera and described Afrotropical species of Tetracampinae
(Hymenoptera: Tetracampidae), with description of a new genus from East
Central Africa. Zootaxa 4111: 393-420. |
Credits
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Photographs © Alex Gumovsky (Schmalhausen Institute of
Zoology, Ukraine). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of
South Africa). |
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