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Anastatus Motschulsky

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

Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859. Type species: Anastatus mantoidae Motschulsky, 1859.

Classification

 

Anastatus ali Bouček, 1976 (Ivory Coast)

 

Anastatus aliberti Risbec, 1951 (Ivory Coast, Senegal)

 

Anastatus antestiae Ferrière, 1930 (Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)

 

Anastatus apantelesi Risbec, 1951 (Cameroon, Senegal)

  Anastatus bekiliensis Risbec, 1952 (Madagascar)
 

Anastatus bifasciatus (Geoffroy, 1785) (Kenya, Uganda. Also Oriental, Palaearctic)

 

Anastatus bostrychidi Risbec, 1951 (Senegal)

 

Anastatus capensis Hedqvist, 1970 (South Africa)

 

Anastatus dipterae (Risbec, 1955) (Cameroon)

 

Anastatus gratidiae Risbec, 1951 (Senegal)

 

Anastatus halyomorphae (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal)

 

Anastatus hemipterae (Risbec, 1951) (Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal)

 

Anastatus longipalpus Risbec, 1951 (Senegal)

 

Anastatus madagascariensis (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar. Also Oriental region: India

 

Anastatus ovicida (Risbec, 1951) (Ivory Coast)

 

Anastatus phonoctoni Risbec, 1955 (Cameroon)

 

Anastatus piezosterni Ferrière, 1935 (Uganda)

 

Anastatus pseudocreobotrae Risbec, 1951 (Senegal)

 

Anastatus sirphidi (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal)

 

Anastatus tenuipes Bolivar y Pieltain, 1925 (Senegal, Sudan. Also Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic)

 

Anastatus urichi (Waterston, 1922) (Sao Tomé & Principe)

 

Anastatus viridiceps Waterston, 1915 (Mozambique, Nigeria, Zambia)

 

Anastatus vuilleti Crawford, 1912  (Mali, Senegal, Sudan)

Anastatus species ex Scyrotis (South Africa)
Anastatus species ex Vegetia grimmia (South Africa)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Primary or hyper-parasitoids of insect and spider eggs and larvae.

References

Brues, C.T. 1907. New chalcid-flies from Cape Colony. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society 5: 46-53.

Fusu, L, Ebrahimi, E, Siebold, C, Villemant, C. 2015. Revision of the Eupelmidae Walker, 1833 described by Jean Risbec. Part 1: the slide mounted specimens housed at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. Zoosystema 37: 457–480. http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2015n3a3

Gibson, G.A.P. 1995. Parasitic wasps of the subfamily Eupelminae: classification and revision of world genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 5: 421 pp.

Gibson G.A.P. 2017. Synonymy of Reikosiella Yoshimoto under Merostenus Walker  (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae), with a checklist of world species and a revision of those species with brachypterous females. Zootaxa 4255: 1–65. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4255.1.1.

Gibson, G.A.P. 2021. Revision of the Old World genus Mesocomys Cameron (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae). Zootaxa 4901: 1–92. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4901.1.1
Motschulsky, V. de. 1859. Insectes des Indes Orientales, et de contrées analogues (2de serie). Études Entomologiques 8: 25–118. Helsingfors.

Risbec, J. 1951. 1. Les Chalcidoides de l'Afrique occidentale française. Mémoires de l'Institute Français d'Afrique Noire, Ifan-Dakar 13: 7-409.

Risbec, J. 1951. Chalcidoïdes d'A.O.F. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 13: 1110-1130.

Risbec, J. 1952. Contribution à l'étude des Chalcidoïdes de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institute Scientifique de Madagascar, Série E 2: 1–449.

Waterston, J. 1916. Chalcidoidea bred from Glossina morsitans in Nyasaland. Bulletin of Entomological Research 6: 381-393.

Waterston, J. 1916. Notes on African Chalcidoidea - V. Bulletin of Entomological Research 7(2): 123-132.

Credits

Photographs and 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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