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Trichosteresis Förster

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

Trichosteresis Förster, 1856: 97, 99. Type: Ceraphron glaber Boheman, by monotypy.

Thliboneura Thomson, 1858: 287,288. Type: Ceraphron glaber Boheman, designated by Muesebeck & Walkley (1951). Synonymy by Kirchner (1867)  (junior objective synonym).
 

Classification

  Trichosteresis glabra (Boheman, 1832)

Distribution

Afrotropical, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palearctic.

Biology

Parasitoid of pupae of syrphid flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) (Dessart, 1974; Macedo & Kawada, 2013).

References

Boheman, C.H. 1832. Forsok till beskrifning af de i Sverige funne Arter, horande till Insektslagtet Ceraphron. K. Svenska Vet.-Acad. Handl. 1831: 322-339.

Dessart P. 1974. Les megaspilides europeens [Hym. Ceraphronoidea] parasites des dipteres syrphides avec une revision du genre Trichosteresis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.) 10: 395–448.
Förster, A. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studien. I I . Heft. Chalcidiae und Proctotrupii. Ernst ter Meer, Aachen. 152 pp.

Macedo, A., Kawada, R. 2013. First record of Trichosteresis Förster (Hymenoptera: Megaspilidae) from South America. Zootaxa 3599: 298-300. 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.3.7.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)


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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