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Lariophagus Crawford

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

Lariophagus Crawford, 1909. Type species: Lariophagus texanus Crawford, 1909, by monotypy.

Uriellomyia Girault 1915. Type species: Uriellomyia resoluta Girault 1915, by  original designation.

Lariophagus distinguendus (Förster, 1841)

Distribution

South Africa. Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of a wide range of beetles, many of economic significance, including Stegobium paniceum (Linnaeus,1758) (Anobiidae) in stored grain.

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies of the Superfamily: Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 1(4): 329.

Bouček, Z. & Rasplus, J.-Y. 1991. Illustrated key to West–Palaearctic genera of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, 140 pp.

Crawford, J.C. 1909. New Chalcidoidea. (Hymenoptera.) Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 11: 51-52.

Girault, A.A. 191., Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea VI. Supplement. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 3: 313-346.

Noyes, J.S. 2018. Universal Chalcidoidea Database, Natural History Museum London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index.html

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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