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Kuwania minuta Borchsenius, 1955 (Kuwaniidae: Kuwania)

Kuwania minuta Borchsenius 1955c: 225. Type data: UKRAINE: near Yalta, collected A.N. Kiritchenko; ARMENIA: Bendik Alaverdin ridge, collected M.A. Ter-Grigorian, on Quercus sp.. Syntypes, female and first instar, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 3

Systematics: Wu, et al., 2012 did not include Kuwania in the species of Kuwania stating that "We have not been able to examine specimens of K. minuta. There is no type material deposited in the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, and all types may be in the Zoological Institute of Armenia (I.A. Gavrilov-Zimin 2012, personal communication). Borchsenius (1955) described this species from Ukraine and Armenia on Quercus sp., but provided no illustrations. We doubt that it belongs to Kuwania because the original description of the adult female states that the multilocular pores have two or three central loculi, and these pores in other species of Kuwania have one central loculus."
Biology: Adults emerge from mid-September to mid-October (Jashenko, 1999).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Borchsenius (1955c) and by Tang & Hao (1995).