Anacharoides Cameron, 1904

Noort, Simon van, Buffington, Matthew L. & Forshage, Mattias, 2015, Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera), ZooKeys 493, pp. 1-176 : 34-35

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Figitidae

Anacharoides Cameron, 1904

Anacharoides (synonym: Coelonychia Kieffer, 1910d)

Remarks.

Not common. Revised by Buffington and van Noort (2009).

Diagnosis.

This genus is immediately separable from all other Figitidae by the distinctive scutellar depression bounded by a pair of sharp, postero-dorsal triangular projections. The elongate petiole is somewhat variable within Aspicerinae, though the state in Anacharoides is longer than in most other genera. The only two taxa Anacharoides may be confused with are Callaspidia and Pujadella ; both of these latter genera have mesoscutal sculpturing that is remininscent of Anacharoides ; however, close examination of the scutellar morphology easily separates these taxa ( Buffington and van Noort 2009). Callaspidia has not been recorded from the Old World Tropics; Pujadella has been collected in Thailand (Buffington pers. obs.) and southern China ( Ros-Farré 2007).

Distribution.

Almost endemic to the Afrotropical region with extralimital distribution in the Canary Islands. Afrotropical records: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe (Buffington and van Noort, 2009), Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi (here).

Biology.

Parasitoids of aphidivorous Brachycera larvae ( Buffington and van Noort 2009).

Species richness.

Anacharoides nicknacki Buffington & van Noort, 2009 (Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Anacharoides pallida Quinlan, 1979 (Ethiopia, South Africa; extralimital distribution in the Canary Islands)

Anacharoides paragi Benoit, 1956c (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Anacharoides quadrus Quinlan, 1979 (Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

syn Anacharoides astrida Quinlan, 1979

Anacharoides rufus (Kieffer, 1912) ( Coelonychia ) (Ethiopia, South Africa) (identity uncertain)

Anacharoides striaticeps Cameron, 1904 (Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe)

syn Anacharoides arcus Quinlan, 1979

syn Anacharoides decellius Quinlan, 1979

syn Anacharoides elongaticornis Benoit, 1956c

syn Anacharoides eurytergis Benoit, 1956c

syn Anacharoides gibbosus Benoit, 1956c

syn Anacharoides nigra Quinlan, 1979

syn Anacharoides sanitas Quinlan, 1979

syn Coelonychia spinosipes Kieffer, 1910d

syn Anacharoides suspensus Quinlan, 1979

Anacharoides stygius Benoit, 1956c (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Tanzania)