Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Figitidae

Acanthaegilopsis Pujade-Villar, 2013

Remarks.

Recently described genus endemic to the Afrotropical region.

Diagnosis.

Immediately distinguishable from other Afrotropical anacharitines by the presence of a distinct and complete medial longitudinal furrow containing cross-carinae on the mesoscutum. The ventral part of the mesopleuron is coriaceously sculptured, a unique anacharitine character state.

Distribution .

Afrotropical region: Comoros, Madagascar, Uganda, Zimbabwe (Mata-Casanova and Pujade-Villar 2013; Mata-Casanova et al. 2014), Kenya (here).

Biology.

Unknown.

Species richness.

Acanthaegilopsis hemicoriaceus Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2014 (Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Acanthaegilopsis malagasy Pujade-Villar & Mata-Casanova, 2013 (Comoros, Madagascar)