The tetrastichine wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) associated with galls on Erythrina species (Fabaceae) in South Africa, with the description of five new species
Author
Prinsloo, Rd. L.
Author
Kelly, Ne. A.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-04-27
2083
1
27
45
https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2083.1.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2083.1.3
1175-5326
5321404
Genus
Aprostocetus
Westwood
Aprostocetus
Westwood, 1833: 144
;
Graham, 1987: 86
;
La Salle, 1994: 136
.
Noyes (2002)
provides a complete list of the more than 40 synonymies that apply to this genus.
Aprostocetus
is by far the largest and most diverse of all the tetrastichine genera. The Afrotropical fauna has never been studied in any detail and is based mainly on scattered descriptions of fewer than 40 species, mostly from West and Central Africa, and listed by
Noyes (2002)
.