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Conostigmus Dahlbom

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ceraphronoidea; Family: Megaspilidae; Subfamily: Megaspilinae)

Conostigmus Dahlbom, 1858. Type species:

Classification

Conostigmus babaiax Dessart, 1997

Conostigmus ballescoracas Dessart, 1997

Conostigmus bucephalus Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

 

Conostigmus confluens Dessart, 1974

Conostigmus clavatus Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

Conostigmus fianarantsoaensis Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

 

Conostigmus flagellaris Dessart, 1997

 

Conostigmus gusztavi Dessart, 1974

 

Conostigmus irsac Dessart, 1997

Conostigmus kijiko Salden & Peters, 2023

Conostigmus koleo Salden & Peters, 2023

Conostigmus longulus Dessart, 1997

Conostigmus lucidus Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

Conostigmus macrocupula Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

Conostigmus madagascariensis Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

Conostigmus missyhazenae Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

 

Conostigmus nandobini Dessart, 1979

 

Conostigmus pedester Kieffer, 1913

Conostigmus pseudobabaiax Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

 

Conostigmus seychellensis Kieffer, 1912

Conostigmus toliaraensis Mikó and Trietsch, 2016

 

Conostigmus triangularis (Thomson, 1858)

 

Conostigmus vestitus Dessart, 1997

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of Syrphidae and boreid mecopterans.

References

Dessart P. 1974. Szelenyides, a new subgenus of Conostigmus Dahlbom, 1857 (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea, Megaspilidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica 27: 43-48.

Dessart P. 1979. Conostigmus nandobini, n.sp. de Somalie (Hymenoptera Ceraphronoidea Megaspilidae). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 115: 161-168.

Dessart P. 1980. Redescription de Conostigmus triangularis (Thomson, 1858) comb. nov.
(Hym. Ceraphronoidea Megaspilidae). Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Royale Belge
d’Entomologie
116: 19–28.

Dessart P. 1997. Les Megaspilinae ni europeens, ni americains 1 Le genre Conostigmus
Dahlbom, 1858 (Hym. Ceraphronoidea Megaspilidae). Memoires de la Socie´te´ Royale Belge
d’Entomologi
e 37: 3–144.

Dessart P. 1999. Révision des Dendrocerus du group "halidayi" (Hymenoptera Ceraphronoidea Megaspilidae). Belgian Journal of Entomology 1: 169-265.

Kieffer JJ. 1912. Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15(4): 45-80. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1912.tb00089.x

Kieffer JJ. 1913. Proctotrupidae, Cynipidae et Evaniidae. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911-1912). Résultats scientifiques. Hyménoptčres 1: 1-35. doi:10.5281/zenodo.23834

Madl M. 2015. A catalogue of the families Ceraphronidae, Megaspilidae (Ceraphronoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea) and Proctotrupidae (Proctotrupoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitraege 47(1): 621–652.

Mikó I, Trietsch C, Sandall EL, Yoder MJ, Hines H, Deans AR. 2016. Malagasy Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea) and the secret of scutes. PeerJ 4:e2682 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2682

Thomson, CG. 1858. Sveriges Proctotruper. Tredje Gruppen Ceraphronini. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akadamiens Förhandlingar 15: 287-305.

Salden, T & Peters, R. 2023. Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 884. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.884.2181.

Credits

Photographs © István Mikó (Frost Entomological Museum, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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