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. 2015 Sep 29;9(4):607-12.
doi: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v9i4.5201. eCollection 2015.

First description of the karyotype of a eucharitid wasp (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eucharitidae)

Igor Silva Santos  1 , Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie  2 , Marco Antonio Costa  3 , Cléa Santos Ferreira Mariano  3 , Janisete Gomes Silva  3
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First description of the karyotype of a eucharitid wasp (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eucharitidae)

Igor Silva Santos et al. Comp Cytogenet. .

Abstract

The haploid karyotype of Kapala sp. (Eucharitidae), a parasite of the Neotropical ant Dinoponera lucida Emery, 1901 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), is reported for the first time. It consists of four metacentric chromosomes. Chromosomes in the family Eucharitidae were unknown so far; therefore, our results confirm that multiple parallel chromosomal fusions have taken place in several lineages within the superfamily Chalcidoidea.

Keywords: Eucharitidae; Kapala; cytogenetics; parasitoid wasp.

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Figure 1.
Adult male specimen of Kapala sp.
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Figure 2.
Metaphase plate and diploid karyotype of Kapala sp. Bar=10 µm.
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