Agassiz David, Kallies Axel
Dept of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD UK..
Zootaxa. 2018 Mar 11;4392(3):588-594. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.8.
A new genus, Osmanthedon Kallies gen. nov., in the tribe Synanthedonini and a new species, Osmanthedon domaticola Agassiz Kallies spec. nov., are described. This is the first record of a sesiid species associated with ant galls (domatia) found on whistling thorn Acacia, Vachellia drepanolobium (Harms ex Sjöstedt) P.J.H.Hurter (Fabaceae), in East Africa.
描述了一个新属,即蚁喜透翅蛾属(Osmanthedon Kallies gen. nov.),隶属于透翅蛾族(Synanthedonini),以及一个新物种,即蚁栖蚁喜透翅蛾(Osmanthedon domaticola Agassiz Kallies spec. nov.)。这是在东非发现的与哨刺金合欢(Vachellia drepanolobium (Harms ex Sjöstedt) P.J.H.Hurter,豆科)上的蚁瘿(虫瘿)相关的透翅蛾科物种的首次记录。