AnimaliaHymenopteraFigitidaevan NoortSimonBuffingtonMatthew L.ForshageMattiasAfrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera)Zookeys1420152015493117610.3897/zookeys.493.6353 Ealata Quinlan, 1986Remarks.

Rare, mostly in East Africa.

Diagnosis.

Protuberances absent on malar space. Dorsal margin of pronotal plate with a distinct emargination. Notauli reduced, only present anteriorly and sometimes posteriorly. Scutellar plate small, with a mound like protuberance anterior of glandular pit. Dorsal surface of scutellum broadly rounded both laterally and posteriorly, distinct posterior aspect of scutellum absent. Separated from all other Diglyphosematini by the presence of a single, broad protuberance anterior of the glandular pit of the scutellum.

Ealata species (Kenya). A habitus lateral view B head and mesosoma dorsal view C scutellum, dorso-lateral view.

Distribution.

Found in the Oriental and Afrotropical regions. Afrotropical records: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Principé, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe (Quinlan 1986), Botswana, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Republic of Congo, Somalia, Tanzania (here).

Biology.

Controversial, reviewed in Buffington (2011). Putatively reared from Tephritidae (unlike the rest of the Diglyphosematini, which attack leaf-mining Agromyzidae), but there are no isolated rearings to confirm this.

Species richness.

Ealata clava Quinlan, 1986 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mauritius, Principé, South Africa, Uganda)

Ealata marica Quinlan, 1986 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Ealata saba Quinlan, 1986 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

QuinlanJ (1986) A key to the Afrotropical genera of Eucoilidae (Hymenoptera), with a revision of certain genera.Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical series52: 243366.BuffingtonML (2011) Description, circumscription and phylogenetics of the Diglyphosematini Belizin, 1961, and the description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae).Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington113: 239290. doi: 10.4289/0013-8797.113.3.239