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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Biology of Rhoophilus loewi (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Cynipidae), with implications for the evolution of inquilinism in gall wasps
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 90, No. 1, Year 2007
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Description
The sole described indigenous afrotropical cynipid, the South African endemic Rhoophilus loewi, was originally described as a gall inducer. As predicted by phylogenetic relationships, we confirm that R. loewi is instead an inquiline wasp. Although all other cynipid inquilines develop in galls induced by cynipid wasps, or very rarely cecidomyiid midges, R. loewi is the only cynipid inquiline of a lepidopteran gall, inducing secondary inquiline cells in galls induced by a cecidosid moth genus Scyrotis on Rhus species (Anacardiaceae). Rhoophilus is a lethal inquiline; its larval cells expand into the hollow interior of the host gall resulting in death of the gall inducer. Rhoophilus loewi is redescribed and the final-instar larva described for the first time. We describe host-plant associations, the morphology and phenology of gall formation, and the suite of parasitoid Hymenoptera associated with these galls. The community centred on Scyrotis galls is compared with those observed in other hosts of inquiline cynipids. Elucidation of the life history of R. loewi has fundamental implications for understanding the evolution of cynipid wasps. © 2007 The Linnean Society of London.
Authors & Co-Authors
van Noort, Simon
South Africa, Cape Town
Iziko South African Museum
Stone, Graham Nicholas
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
Whitehead, Vincent B.
South Africa, Cape Town
Iziko South African Museum
Nieves-Aldrey, José Luis
Spain, Madrid
Csic - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Mncn
Statistics
Citations: 45
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00719.x
ISSN:
00244066
e-ISSN:
10958312