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Eulophinae

Eulophine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

 

Alibertia Risbec, 1951

Cirrospilus Westwood, 1832

 

Diglyphus Walker, 1844

 

Dimmockia Ashmead, 1904  

 

Elachertus Spinola, 1811

 

Elasmus Westwood, 1833

 

Eulophomorpha Dodd, 1915

 

Eulophus Geoffroy, 1762

 

Euplectromorpha Girault, 1913

 

Euplectrus Westwood, 1832

 

Hakuna Gumovsky & Bouček, 2006

 

Hemiptarsenus Westwood, 1833

 

Janicharis Gumovsky & Delvare, 2006

 

Meruana Delucchi, 1962

 

Microlycus Thomson, 1878

 

Notanisomorphella Girault, 1913  

  Ophelimus Haliday,1844

 

Perinetia Risbec, 1952

 

Platyplectrus Ferričre, 1941  

 

Semielacher Bouček, 1988

Setelacher Bouček, 1988

 

Seyrigina Risbec, 1952

 

Stenomesius Westwood, 1833  

Sympiesis Förster, 1856

 

Trichospilus Ferričre, 1930

Zagrammosoma Ashmead, 1904
Genus?
Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Solitary or gregarious ectoparasitoids of dipteran, lepidopteran, coleopteran, hymenopteran or hemipteran larvae or rarely pupae; a few species are phytophagous.

References

Burks, R.A., Heraty, J.M., Gebiola, M. & Hansson, C. 2011. Combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), with focus on the subfamily Entedoninae. Cladistics, 27, 581–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00358.x 

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, Bazhenova T & van Noort S. 2020. First record of the genus Setelacher Bouček (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Eulophinae) from the Afrotropical region, with description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 54: 611-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1764647

Heraty, J.M., Burks, R.A., Cruaud, A., Gibson, G.A.P., Liljeblad, J., Munro, J., Rasplus, J.-Y., Delvare, G., Janšta, P., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J., Woolley, J.B., Krogmann, L., Heydon, S., Polaszek, A., Schmidt, S., Darling, D.C., Gates, M.W., Mottern, J., Murray, E., Dal Molin, A., Triapitsyn, S., Baur, H., Pinto, J.D., van Noort, S., George, J. & Yoder, M. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics, 29, 466–542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12006

Munro, J.B., Heraty, J.M., Burks, R.A., Hawks, D., Mottern, J., Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J.-Y. & Jansta, P. 2011. A Molecular Phylogeny of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PLoS ONE, 6 (11), e27023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027023

Perry RK, Heraty JM. 2021. Read between the lineata: A revision of the tattooed wasps, Zagrammosoma Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with descriptions of eleven new species. Zootaxa 4916: 1–108. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4916.1.1

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or © Ryan K. Perry (University of California, Riverside).


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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