Garudella
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Figitidae
Name
Garudella Buffington & Forshage, 2014 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Remarks
Very rare, in Africa only known from a single specimen in the Republic of Congo. The tribal placement of this taxon is uncertain. Key characters make it run to Trichoplastini, but both habitus and a number of other characters are more similar to Cothonaspis, and in the original description it is tentatively placed in Kleidotomini. It may, along with Cothonaspis and Triplasta Kieffer, represent a basal lineage in that tribe, but in the absence of a proper phylogenetic analysis, this remains little more than just a guess.
Diagnosis
The thick basal part of the pronotal plate and the very robust petiole are unique characters in the Eucoilinae. The overall body shape is similar to Cothonaspis, and the wings are similar to Cothonaspis and a number of other genera (Rhoptromeris, Trichoplasta, and many Leptopilina), but Garudella can be separated based on the morphology of the pronotal plate and the uniquely robust propodeal-petiolar complex.
Distribution
Oriental and Afrotropical regions. Afrotropical records: Republic of Congo.
Biology
Host unknown.
Species richness
Garudella afrotropica Buffington & Forshage, 2014 (Republic of Congo)
