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Eucharitinae

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

Eucharitine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

Classification

 

Ancylotropus Cameron, 1906

 

Athairocharis Heraty, 2002

 

Babcockiella Heraty, 2002

 

Cherianella Narendran, 1994

 

Cyneucharis Heraty, 2002

 

Psilocharis Heraty, 1994

 

Eucharis Latreille, 1804

 

Eucharissa Westwood, 1868

 

Hydrorhoa Kieffer, 1904

 

Kapala Cameron, 1884

 

Mateucharis Boucek & Watsham, 1982

 

Mictocharis Heraty, 2002

 

Neostilbula Heraty, 2002

 

Risbecia Heraty, 2002

 

Stilbula Spinola, 1811

 

Zulucharis Heraty, 2002

Distribution

Worlwide, most common in tropical regions; absent from New Zealand.

Biology

Parasitoids of ant larvae (Myrmycinae, Formicinae and Ponerinae).

References

Heraty, J.M. 1994. Classification and evolution of the Oraseminae in the Old World, including revision of two closely related genera of Eucharitinae (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae). Life Sciences Contributions, Royal Ontario Museum 157: vii+174pp. 

 

Heraty, J.M. 2002. A revision of the genera of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the World. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 68: 1-359.

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