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    First and southernmost records of Tetramesa stipae De Stefani, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) from Tunisia: a new addition to the African Chalcidoidea
    (Universidad de Murcia, 2025) El Mokni, Ridha; Sin departamento asociado
    The phytophagous eurytomid wasp, Tetramesa stipae (De Stefani, 1901) is newly recorded from Africa. It was collected twice on April and June 2023 in two very distant localities in Tunisia (North Africa). The species inducing galls on Stipella capensis growing in the hedges of olive groves and within ruderal thermophilous floristic communities. Preliminarily data for this taxon together with morpho logical measurements of its galls are here firstly presented. Moreover, coloured illustrations of the Tunisian galls are also provided