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Fuscicornia Risbec

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Scelionidae; Subfamily: Scelioninae)

Fuscicornia Risbec, 1950. Type species: Fuscicornia bambeyi Risbec, 1950.

Afrotropical species

Fuscicornia ardis Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania)

 

Fuscicornia aulacis Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Madagascar)

Fuscicornia bambeyi Risbec, 1950 (Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zimbabwe)

 

Fuscicornia crista Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Somalia, Tanzania)

 

Fuscicornia eos Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, Yemen)

 

Fuscicornia fortuna Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Madagascar, Yemen)

Fuscicornia paradisa Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

 

Fuscicornia skopelos Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Madagascar)

 

Fuscicornia sabrina Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Somalia)

 

Fuscicornia speculum Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Central African Republic, Madagascar, Nigeria, Uganda)

Fuscicornia spinosa Risbec, 1953 (Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe)

Fuscicornia species (Kenya)
Fuscicornia species (Kenya)
Indo-Australasian and Oriental species
 

Fuscicornia collaris Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (New Guinea)

 

Fuscicornia dissita Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Vanuatu)

 

Fuscicornia episcopus Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Thailand)

 

Fuscicornia fax Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Papua New Guinea)

 

Fuscicornia indica Mani & Sharma (Australia, India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand)

 

Fuscicornia koreica Choi & Kozlov (China, Japan, Korea, Philippines)

 

Fuscicornia plicata Taekul & Johnson, 2008 (Sri Lanka)

 

Fuscicornia tehrii Mukerjee (Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand)

Distribution

Afrotropical, Indo-Australasian and Oriental regions.

Biology

Host: unknown

References

Risbec, J. 1950. Contribution à l'étude des Proctotrupidaw (Serphiidae). Proctotrupidés des la Section technique d'Agricultures tropicale (A.O.Fuscicornia) et Proctotrupidés du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Afrique et Colonies françaises). Travaux du Laboratoire d'Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques, Gouvernement Générale de l'Afrique Occidentale Françaises. 639 pp.

Taekul, C., N. F. Johnson, L. Masner, Rajmohana K. and Chen S.-P. 2008. Revision of the world species of the genus Fusicornia Risbec (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Scelioninae). Zootaxa 1966: 1-52.

Credits

Photographs © Charuwat Taekul, Norman F. Johnson (Ohio State University), or photographs © Robert Copeland (ICIPE).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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