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Distribution |
Gabon, Madagascar. |
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Biology |
Egg
parasitoids of leaf rolling attelabid beetles (Coleoptera: Attelabidae).
A Poropoea species associated with Apoderus humeralis
(currently included in the genus Cycnotrachelodes (Olivier) (Coleopera,
Attelabidae) (Reckhaus, 1997) was reported from Madagascar (Zwick,
2009); and in Gabon, P. africana was reared from eggs of
Paratomapoderus brachypterus (Voss) (Coleoptera, Attelabidae,
Apoderinae, Hoplapoderini), in leaf rolls of a species of Combretum
Loefl. (Combretaceae) (Laudonia et al 2017). |
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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
Reckhaus P. 1997. Maladies et ravageurs des
cultures maraichères: à l’exemple de Madagascar.
Margraf, Weikersheim, 402 pp.
Zwick P. 2009. Biogeographical Patterns.
In: Resh VH, Cardé RT (Ed.) Encyclopaedia of
Insects (2nd edn). Academic Press, San Diego, 82–91.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-74144-8.00032 |
Credits
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Photographs © Stefania Laudonia & Gennaro
Viggiani (University of Naples Federico II).
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