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Marietta connecta Compere

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Aphelinidae)

Marietta connecta Compere, 1936   

Classification

 

Distribution


Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa
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Biology

Reared from Kerridae, Pseudococcidae and Coccidae (Annecke & Insley, 1972)

References

Annecke HP, Insley DP. 1972. The species of Marietta and a new Centrodora from South Africa (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 35: 1-15.

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Hoddle, C., Hoddle, M. & Triapitsyn, S. 2013. Marietta leopardina (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) and Aprostocetus (Aprostocetus) sp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) are Obligate Hyperparasitoids of Tamarixia radiata (Eulophidae) and Diaphorencyrtus aligarhensis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Florida Entomologist 96: 643-646. http://dx.doi.org/10.1653/024.096.0236

Prinsloo, G.L. 1985. Some chalcidoid parasitoids (Hymenoptera) from the central Namib desert. Cimbebasia (A) 7(7): 87-105.

Credits

Line drawing © Gerhard Prinsloo.

Map illustration © 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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