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Xenapates Kirby

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea; Family: Tenthredinidae; Subfamily: Allantinae)

Xenapates W.F. Kirby 1882. Type species: Dineura africana Cameron, 1876, by monotypy.
Anataxates Benson, 1939. Type species: Taxonus gaullei Konow, 1896, by original designation.

	Xenapates abyssinica Benson, 1939 (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia) Xenapates aequatorialis Koch, 1995 (Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo) Xenapates africanus (Cameron, 1876) (Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone) Xenapates armatus Koch, 1995 (Democratic Republic of Congo) Xenapates atratus Koch, 2007 (Togo)
	Xenapates beateae Koch, 1996 (Namibia)
	Xenapates bequaerti Enslin, 1913 (Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo) Xenapates bicolor Pasteels, 1949 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo)
	Xenapates braunsi (Konow, 1896)
	Xenapates brevicornis Malaise, 1938 (Ethiopia) Xenapates congoensis Koch, 1995 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo)
	Xenapates damaraensis Koch, 1995 (Namibia)
	Xenapates deconinckae Koch, 1995 (Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo) Xenapates dorsalis Koch, 1998 (Democratic Republic of Congo) Xenapates eardleyi Koch, 1995 (Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) Xenapates ewaldi Koch, 1995 (Democratic Republic of Congo) Xenapates flavipes Koch, 1995 (Zambia) Xenapates flavus Koch, 1995 (Uganda) Xenapates fuscipes Benson, 1939 (Ethiopia) Xenapates gabunensis (Konow, 1896) (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Togo)
	Xenapates gaullei (Konow, 1896)
	Xenapates goergeni Koch, 2007 (Togo) Xenapates hyalinatus (Forsius, 1934) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe) Xenapates insignitus Koch, 1996 (Tanzania) Xenapates interantennalis Koch, 1995 (Angola) Xenapates nigripes Koch, 1995 (Ethiopia) Xenapates nigripleuris Koch, 1995 (Angola) Xenapates nigritus Koch, 1995 (Ethiopia, Kenya) Xenapates nigrifrons Koch, 2012 (Ethiopia, Kenya) Xenapates offrenatus (Konow, 1907) (Kenya, Tanzania) Xenapates orientalis Koch, 1995 (Sudan) Xenapates pallipes Pasteels, 1950 (Gabon) Xenapates pectoralis Forsius, 1927 (Mozambique, Zimbabwe) Xenapates scutellaris Forsius, 1927 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria) Xenapates similis Benson, 1939 (Botswana, Cameroon, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe) Xenapates substrictus Koch, 1995 (Mali) Xenapates tenebricus Koch, 1995 (Sierra Leone) Xenapates tessmanni Enslin, 1913 (Equatorial Guinea) Xenapates togoensis Koch, 2007 (Togo) Xenapates unicus Koch, 1995 (Democratic Republic of Congo) Xenapates variator Enslin, 1913 (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Uganda) Xenapates ventralis Enslin, 1913 (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya) Xenapates virgatus Koch, 1995 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda) Xenapates weulersseae Koch, 1995 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Togo, Uganda)

Distribution	Afrotropical region.
Biology	Two species are potential crop pests. Larvae of Xenapates braunsi feed on Poaceae: Digitaria horizontalis Willdenow (Jamaican crabgrass), Pennisetum purpureum Schumacher (elephant grass), Setaria barbata (Lamarck) Kunth (bristly foxtail grass), Zea mays Linnaeus (maize). Larvae of Xenapates gaullei feed on Commelinaceae: Commelina benghalensis Linnaeus (Bengal dayflower) and C. communis Linnaeus (Asiatic dayflower) (Liston et al. 2015).
References	Koch, F. 1995. Die Symphyta der Äthiopischen Region. 1. Gattung: Xenapates Kirby, 1982 (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Allantinae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Neue Folge, Berlin 42(2): 369-437. Koch, F. 1996. Die Symphyta der Äthiopischen Region: Zwei neue Arten aus der Gattung Xenapates Kirby, 1882 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Allantinae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Neue Folge, Berlin 43(2): 307-312. Liston A, Goergen G, Koch F. 2015. The immature stages and biology of two Xenapates species in West Africa (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62(1): 9-17. doi: 10.3897/dez.62.8922
Credits	Photographs © Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut), Georg Goergen (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Benin) and Frank Koch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin).

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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