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Aganaspis Lin

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family: Figitidae; Subfamily: Eucoilinae)

Aganaspis Lin, 1987

 

Aganaspis alujai Wharton & Ovruski, 2007

 

Aganaspis contracta Lin, 1987

Aganaspis daci (Weld, 1951) (widely distributed species, synanthropically spread with an assumed origin in the Oriental region).

  Aganaspis major Lin, 1987
Aganaspis nordlanderi Wharton, 1998
  Aganaspis ocellata Lin, 1987
Aganaspis pelleranoi (Brèthes, 1924)
Aganaspis species (Central African Republic).
Distribution

Widespread, but primarily East Asian and Neotropical. Afrotropical region: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Reunion, South Africa, Tanzania (van Noort et al. 2015).

Biology

Parasitoids of Tephritidae and other fruit-infesting flies (Wharton et al. 1998; Guimarães et al. 2003; van Noort et al. 2015).

References

Buffington ML, Forshage M, Liljeblad J, Tang CT, van Noort, S. 2020. World Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera):a key to higher-level groups. Insect Systematics and Diversity 4(4): 1–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixaa003

Guimaraes J, Gallardo F, Díaz NB, Zucchi RA. 2003. Eucoiline species (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) parasitoids of fruit-infesting dipterous larvae in Brazil: identity, geographical distribution and host associations. Zootaxa 278: 1–23.

Lin KS. 1987. Aganaspis, a new genus of Eucoilidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, special publication 22: 67–79.

Quinlan, J. 1986. A key to the Afrotropical genera of Eucoilidae (Hymenoptera), with a revision of certain genera. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Entomology) 52, 243–366.

van Noort, S, Buffington ML & Forshage, M. 2015. Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). ZooKeys 493: 1-176. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.493.6353

Wharton R, Ovruski S, Gilstrap F. 1998. Neotropical Eucoilidae (Cynipoidea) associated with fruit-infesting Tephritidae, with new records from Argentina, Bolivia and Costa Rica. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 7: 102–115.

Credits

 

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)

Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) and Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum of Natural History) both played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages.


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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