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Poropoea africana Foerster

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family Trichogrammatidae; Genus: Poropoea)

Poropoea africana Laudonia & Viggiani, 2017. Holotype in Entomological collection of the Dipartimento di Agraria dell'Università degli Studi “Federico II”, Portici, Napoli. Type locality: Ogooué-Ivindo, Parc N. Ivindo, Station de Recherche de Ipassa, m a.s.l 500; 0°30'43"N, 12°48'12"E, Gabon.

Classification

Distribution

Gabon.

Biology

Egg parasitoid of Paratomapoderus brachypterus (Voss) (Coleoptera, Attelabidae, Apoderinae, Hoplapoderini), in leaf rolls of a species of Combretum Loefl. (Combretaceae) (Laudonia et al 2017).

References

Foerster, A. 1851. Eine Centurie neuer Hymenopteren. Vierte und fünfte Dekade. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, Bonn 8: 1-42, 1 plate.

Laudonia S, Viggiani G, Biondi S. 2017. A new species of Poropoea Foerster from Africa (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Trichogrammatidae). ZooKeys 658: 81–87. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.658.11501

Credits

Photographs © Stefania Laudonia & Gennaro Viggiani (University of Naples Federico II).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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