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Eurytominae

Eurytomine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

  Aximopsis Ashmead, 1904
  Bruchophagus Ashmead, 1888

Buresium Bouček, 1970

Eurytoma

  Eurytomaria Masi, 1943
  Ficomila Bouček, 1981
  Fronsoma Narendran, 1994
  Gibsonoma Narendran, 1994
Macrorileya Ashmead, 1904
  Paradecatoma Masi, 1943
Philolema Cameron, 1908
  Phylloxeroxenus Ashmead, 1888
  Plutarchia Girault, 1925
  Prodecatoma Ashmead, 1904
  Prodecatomoidea Risbec, 1952
  Risbecoma Subba Rao, 1978
  Syceurytoma Bouček, 1981
Sycophila Walker, 1871
  Tetramesa Walker, 1848
Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Phytophagous (as seed predators, stem feeders or gallers); or parasitoids of wide range of insects; or inquilines feeding on both the host insect and surrounding plant tissue.

References

Bouček, Z. 1969. On some new or otherwise interesting Torymidae, Ormyridae, Eurytomidae and Pteromalidae (Hym.) mainly from the Mediterranean subregion. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri', Portici 27: 27-54.

Bouček, Z. 1983. On Buresium, Masneroma (n. gen.) and some other Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica 14: 186-194. doi:10.1163/187631283X00065

Burks, B.D. 1958. A new Bruchophagus from liliaceous plant with a host plant list for the genus (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 273-277.

Delvare, G. 1988. Revision des Eurytoma (Hym.: Eurytomidae) d'Afrique occidentale decrits par Risbec. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 24: 117-149.

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

Gates, M. & Delvare, G. 2008. A new species of Eurytoma (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) attacking Quadrastichus spp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) galling Erythrina spp. (Fabaceae), with a summary of African Eurytoma biology and species checklist. Zootaxa, 1751, 1–24.

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.

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

Lotfalizadeh, H., Delvare, G., & Rasplus, J.-Y. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of Eurytominae (Chalcidoidea: Eurytomidae) based on morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 151, 441–510.

Rasplus, J.-Y. 1988, Nouvelles espèces d'Eurytomidae principalement parasites de coléoptères séminivores de légumineuses en Côte d'Ivoire (Lamto) (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea). Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e Bachicoltura, Milano (II) 20: 89-114.

Credits

Banner photograph © Vida van der Walt; other photographs © Hamish Robertson (Iziko Museums) or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Mike Gates (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS).


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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