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van Noort S, Buffington ML, Forshage M. Review of Afrotropical Figitinae (Figitidae, Cynipoidea, Hymenoptera) with the first records of Neralsia and Lonchidia for the region. Zookeys. 2014;(453):37-69doi: 10.3897/zookeys.453.8511.
van Noort, S., Buffington, M. L., & Forshage, M. (2014). Review of Afrotropical Figitinae (Figitidae, Cynipoidea, Hymenoptera) with the first records of Neralsia and Lonchidia for the region. ZooKeys, (453), 37-69. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.453.8511
van Noort, Simon, et al. "Review of Afrotropical Figitinae (Figitidae, Cynipoidea, Hymenoptera) with the first records of Neralsia and Lonchidia for the region." ZooKeys vol. ,453 (2014): 37-69. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.453.8511
van Noort S, Buffington ML, Forshage M. Review of Afrotropical Figitinae (Figitidae, Cynipoidea, Hymenoptera) with the first records of Neralsia and Lonchidia for the region. Zookeys. 2014 Nov 10;(453):37-69. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.453.8511. eCollection 2014. PMID: 25493059; PMCID: PMC4258626.
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Zookeys. 2014 Nov 10;(453):37-69. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.453.8511. eCollection 2014.

Review of Afrotropical Figitinae (Figitidae, Cynipoidea, Hymenoptera) with the first records of Neralsia and Lonchidia for the region.

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Simon van Noort, Matthew L Buffington, Mattias Forshage

Affiliations

  1. Natural History Department, Iziko South African Museum, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa ; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
  2. Systematic Entomology Lab, USDA, c/o Smithsonian NMNH, 10th & Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20013.
  3. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 25493059 PMCID: PMC4258626 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.453.8511

Abstract

The cynipoid subfamily Figitinae is poorly represented in the Afrotropical region with two genera (Figites Latreille and Xyalophora Kieffer) and six species currently known. Here we record an additional two genera (Neralsia Cameron and Lonchidia Thomson) for the region and describe three new species: Neralsiahaddocki sp. n.; Xyalophoratedjoansi sp. n.; Xyalophoratintini sp. n. Benoit's species described in 1956 are synonymized under Figitesaciculatus (Benoit, 1956): Figiteseffossus syn. n.; Figitesfavonius syn. n.; Figitesfurvus syn. n.; Figitesfraudator syn. n. Identification keys to the figitine genera and species occurring in the Afrotropical region are provided. Online interactive Lucid Phoenix and Lucid matrix keys are available at: http://www.waspweb.org/Cynipoidea/Keys/index.htm.

Keywords: Africa; Afrotropical; Cynipoidea; Figitidae; identification key; species description; taxonomy

References

  1. Neotrop Entomol. 2006 Jan-Feb;35(1):59-69 - PubMed
  2. Rev Biol Trop. 2008 Jun;56(2):795-828 - PubMed

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