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Perilampus Latreille

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

Perilampus Latreille, 1809

Classification

Perilampus species
 

Perilampus amnonius (Argaman, 1990)

 

Perilampus Boučeki (Argaman, 1990)

  Perilampus braconiphaga Risbec, 1951
  Perilampus casevitzi (Argaman, 1990)
  Perilampus cocegus (Argaman, 1990)
  Perilampus cremastusae (Risbec, 1952)
  Perilampus delbotor (Argaman, 1990)
  Perilampus horocos (Argaman, 1990)
  Perilampus hurap (Argaman, 1990)
  Perilampus ivondroi (Risbec, 1952)
  Perilampus kittenbergeri (Argaman, 1990)
  Perilampus laticeps Masi, 1940
 

Perilampus maurus Walker, 1852

  Perilampus meloui (Risbec, 1957)
 

Perilampus nimrodus (Argaman, 1990)

 

Perilampus rostratus Kerrich, 1954

  Perilampus ruficornis (Fabricius, 1793)
Perilampus seyrigi Risbec, 1952
Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Either hyperparasitoids of Lepidoptera through Tachinidae (Diptera) or Ichneumonoidea, or primary parasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae (Anobiidae and Platypodidae), and less commonly Hymenoptera, Orthoptera or Neuroptera.

References

Bouček, Z. 1978. A generic key to Perilampinae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with a revision of Krombeinius n. gen. and Euperilampus Walker. Entomologica Scandinavica 9: 299-307.

Darling, D.C. 1982. Description of a New Species of Krombeinius (Hymenoptera: Perilampidae) from the Philippines, and the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Genus. Psyche 89: 307-316.

Darling, D.C. 1988. A review of the genus Krombeinius (Hymenoptera: Perilampidae) with a reexamination of generic limits and phylogenetic relationships and the descriptions of two new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 96(1): 70-74.

Darling, D.C. 1995. New species of Krombeinius (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Perilampidae) from Indonesia, and the first description of first-instar larva for the genus. Zool. Med. Leiden 69: 209-229.

Darling, D.C. 1996. Generic concepts in the Perilampidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): an assessment of recently proposed genera. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 5 pp. 100-130.

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

Rasplus, J.-Y. 1987. Description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Krombeinius Bouček, 1978 récoltée en Afrique de l'ouest (Hymenoptera, Perilampidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (nouvelle série) 9 pp. 9-12

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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