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Issue: Vol. 1337 No. 1: 19 Oct. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1337.1.2
Page range: 39–59
Abstract views: 82
PDF downloaded: 2

First record of the fig wasp genus Diaziella Grandi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae) from the Asian mainland with description of two new species from China

Natural History Division, Iziko South African Museum, P.O. Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming CBGP: INRA collection at Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Montpellier, France.
Hymenoptera Diaziella Ficus fig wasp key new species taxonomy

Abstract

Diaziella bizarrea van Noort & Rasplus sp. nov. is described from specimens reared from Ficus glaberrima and Diaziella yangi van Noort & Rasplus sp. nov. is described from specimens reared from Ficus curtipes in Xishuangbanna, China. Together with a new record of Diaziella macroptera Grandi from Thailand this is the first time the genus has been recorded from the Asian mainland. Previously the twelve described species of Diaziella were known from the islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Philippines. Images are provided for both sexes of the two new species and for the female of D. macroptera. A key is included to all described species of Diaziella. An online key is available at: http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Pteromalidae/Sycoecinae/Key/ Diaziella.htm. Host relationships and biology are discussed.

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