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Buresium

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

Buresium Boucek 1970

Key to species

Buresium naso
  Buresium rufum
  Buresium tenue
  Buresium watshami
Buresium species
Buresium species

Distribution

Old World: Afrotropical: South Africa, Zimbabwe. Palaearctic: Azerbaidshan, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Tadzhikistan. Oriental: India, Pakistan, Thailand.

Biology

Parasitoids of stem-boring beetle larvae Mordellistena sp (Mordellidae) in stems of Cannabis sativa.

Reference

Boucek, Z. 1983. On Buresium, Masneroma (n.gen.) and some other Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica 14:186-194.

Gates, M.W. 2008. Species revision and generic systematics of World Rileyinae (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 127: 1-332.

Credits

Photographs © Mike Gates (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS)


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