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Pediobius Walker

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

Microterus Spinola, 1811: 151–152. Type species: Diplolepis petiolatus Spinola, by subsequent designation of Gahan & Fagan, 1923. Synonymy by Bouček, 1965. Regarded as nomen oblitum in favour of Pediobius Walker by Hansson, 2002.
Pediobius Walker, 1846: 184 (as a subgenus of Entedon Dalman). Type species: Entedon (Pediobius) imbreus Walker, by subsequent designation of Ashmead 1904.
Pleurotropis Förster, 1856: 78, 82. Type species: Pleurotropis isomerus Förster, by subsequent designation of Förster, 1861. Synonymy by Ferričre, 1953.
Pediobomyia Girault, 1913: 155. Type species (by original designation): Pediobomyia darwini Girault. Synonymy by Gumovsky, 2018.
Rhynchentedon Girault, 1919: 166. Type species (by original designation): Rhynchentedon maximum Girault. Synonymy by Gumovsky, 2018.

Classification
 

Pediobius acalyphae (Risbec, 1958) (Madagascar)

Pediobius acraconae Kerrich, 1973 (Nigeria)

Pediobius africanus (Waterston, 1915) (Malawi, Uganda)

Pediobius afronigripes Kerrich, 1973 (Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria)

Pediobius afroteres Gumovsky, 2018 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Pediobius amaurocoelus (Waterston, 1915) (Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa)

Pediobius ambilobei (Risbec, 1958) (Madagascar)

Pediobius anastati (Crawford, 1913) (Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Uganda)

Pediobius angustifrons Kerrich, 1973 (Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda)

Pediobius aphidi (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Pediobius arcuatus Kerrich, 1973 (Uganda)

Pediobius askari Gumovsky, 2018 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)
Pediobius balyanae Bouček, 1977 (Madagascar)

Pediobius braconiphagus (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal)

Pediobius bruchicida (Rondani, 1872) (Australasian, Oriental, Palaearctic)

Pediobius cephalanthusae (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Pediobius clinognathus (Waterston, 1915) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Nigeria)

Pediobius coffeicola (Ferričre, 1936) (Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania)

Pediobius derroni Bouček, 1977 (Sao Tomé & Principe)

Pediobius dipterae (Risbec, 1951) (Cameroon, Senegal)

Pediobius erosus (Risbec, 1951) (Ivory Coast)

Pediobius foveolatus (Crawford, 1912) (worldwide)

Pediobius furvus (Gahan, 1928) (Afrotropical: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal,  South Africa, Uganda; Nearctic, Neotropical)

Pediobius hirtellus (Masi, 1940) (Somalia)

Pediobius homoeus (Waterston, 1915) (Ivory Coast, Malawi)

Pediobius imerinae (Risbec, 1958) (Madagascar)

Pediobius ivondroi (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Pediobius kafroteres Gumovsky, 2018 (Cameroon)

Pediobius kilimovoronae (Risbec, 1958) (Madagascar)

Pediobius madas Bouček, 1977 (Madagascar)

Pediobius maleficus Gumovsky, 2018 (Central African Republic, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya)

Pediobius mandrakae (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Pediobius marjoriae Kerrich, 1973 (Uganda)

Pediobius milii (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal)

Pediobius modestus (Masi, 1940) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia)

Pediobius multisetis Bouček, 1977 (Ivory Coast)

Pediobius myrthacea (Risbec, 1958) (Madagascar)

Pediobius neavei (Waterston, 1915) (Malawi)

Pediobius nganga Gumovsky, 2018 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Pediobius nigeriensis (Silvestri, 1915) (Nigeria)

Pediobius orungu Gumovsky, 2018 (Gabon)

Pediobius pachyceps (Masi, 1940) (Somalia)

Pediobius pauliani (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Pediobius praeveniens Kerrich, 1973 (Kenya, Uganda)

Pediobius retis Bouček, 1977 (Ivory Coast)

Pediobius rhyssonotus Kerrich, 1973 (Uganda)

Pediobius rohombaya Gumovsky, 2018 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Uganda)
Pediobius ropalidiae (Risbec, 1958) (Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa)

Pediobius senegalensis (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal)

Pediobius setigerus Kerrich, 1970 (Ghana, Ivory Coast)

Pediobius seyrigi (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Pediobius taylori Kerrich, 1973 (Uganda)

Pediobius telenomi (Crawford, 1911) (Uganda)

Pediobius vigintiquinque Kerrich, 1970 (Ghana, Ivory Coast)

Pediobius vignae (Risbec, 1951) (Nigeria)
Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Parasitoids, or hyperprasitoids of a great variety of insects and spiders including Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Thysanoptera, Mantodea, Neuroptera (Bouček 1965; Noyes 2018).

References

Bouček, Z. 1965. Studies of European Eulophidae, IV: Pediobius Walk. and two allied genera (Hymenoptera). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 36: 5-90.

Hansson, C. 2002. Eulophidae of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), 1. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 67.

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.

Gumovsky, A. 2018. New enigmatic species of the genus Pediobius (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) from Afrotropics, with notes on related genera. Zootaxa 4438(2): 201–236. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4438.2.1

Noyes, J. 2018. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. Worldwide Web electronic publication. Available from: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids

Peck, O. 1985. The taxonomy of the Nearctic species of Pediobius (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), especially Canadian and Alaskan forms. Canadian Entomologist. 117: 647-704.

Schauff, M.E. 1991. The Holarctic genera of Entedoninae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 26.

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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