Exploring insect biodiversity: the parasitic Hymenoptera, chiefly Chalcidoidea, associated with seeds of asphodels (Xanthorrhoeaceae), with the description of nine new species belonging to Eurytomidae and Torymidae
Author
Delvare, G.
Author
Escolà, A. Ribes
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Stojanova, A. M.
Author
Benoit, L.
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Lecomte, J.
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Askew, R. R.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-06
4597
1
1
90
journal article
26921
10.11646/zootaxa.4597.1.1
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1175-5326
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Idiomacromerus
Crawford, 1914
This genus of
Torymidae (Microdontomerinae)
is known to be represented in asphodel seeds by a single hitherto
undescribed species. It was reared in abundance as a parasitoid of
Bruchophagus gijswijti
in seeds of
A. fistulosus
by Antoni Ribes, who prepared the following description not long before his death.