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Sphegigastrini

Sphegigastrine wasps of the World

 

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

Sphegigastrini Thomson, 1876. Type genus: Sphegigaster Spinola, 1811.

Classification

 

Acroclisis Förster, 1878

Ammeia Delucchi,

Andersena Boucek, 1993

Ardilea Graham,

Bairamlia Waterston,

Bubekia Dalla Torre,

Bubekiana De Santis,

Callicarolynia Heydon,

Callimerismus Graham,

Ceratetra Dzhanokmen,

Cryptoprymna Förster,

Cyrtogaster Walker,

Haliplogeton De Santis,

Halticoptera Spinola,

Harrizia Delucchi,

Kazina Boucek, 1993

Maorita Boucek, 1993

Mauleus Graham,

Merismus Walker,

Notoglyptus Masi,

Notoprymna De Santis,

Novitzkyanus Boucek, 1961

Paracroclisis Girault,

Ploskana Boucek,

Polstonia Heydon,

Rhicnocoelia Graham,

Schimitschekia Boucek,

Sorosina Dzhanokmen,

Sphegigaster Spinola,

Syntomopus Walker,

Thinodytes Graham,

Toxeuma Walker, 1833

Tricyclomischus Graham,

Trigonogastrella Girault,

Vespita Boucek, 1993

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of leaf-mining or stem-burrowing flies (Diptera).

References

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea, a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. 832 pp.

Bouček, Z., 1993. New taxa of North American Pteromalidae and  Tetracampidae (Hymenoptera), with notes. Journal of Natural History 27: 1239-1313.

Burks R, Mitroiu M-D, Fusu L, Heraty JM, Janšta P, Heydon S, Papilloud ND-S, Peters RS, Tselikh EV, Woolley JB, van Noort S, Baur H, Cruaud A, Darling C, Haas M, Hanson P, Krogmann L, Rasplus J-Y. 2022. From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach to rendering Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera) monophyletic. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 94:13-88. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.94.94263

Cruaud A, Rasplus J-Y, Zhang J, Burks R, Delvare G, Fusu L, Gibson GAP, Gumovsky A, Hanson P, Huber JT, Janšta P, Mitroiu M-D, Noyes JS, van Noort S, Baker A, Böhmová J, Baur H, Blaimer BB, Brady SG, Bubeníková K, Chartois M, Copeland RS, Dale-Skey Papilloud N, Dal Molin A, Darling C, Dominguez C, Fisher N, Gates MW, Gebiola M, Guerrieri E, Haas M, Hansson C, Heydon S, Kresslein RL, Krogmann L, Moriarty Lemmon E, Mottern J, Murray E, Nidelet S, Nieves Aldrey JL, Perry R, Peters RS, Pinto JD, Polaszek A, Sauné L, Schmidt S, Torréns J, Triapitsyn S, Tselikh EV, Ubaidillah R, Yoder M, Lemmon A, Woolley JB, Heraty JM. 2024. The Chalcidoidea bush of life – Evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps. Cladistics 40: 34-63. http://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12561

 

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

Credits

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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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