Pteromalus puparum (Linnaeus)

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

Ichneumon puparum Linnaeus, 1758. Holotype in: . Type locality: in Palaearctic region.

Female SAM-HYM-P019377A (SAMC)





Edgemead, Cape Town. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum). Male SAM-HYM-P019410A (SAMC)




Stellenbosch. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum). Host Pieris brassicae pupa with wasp exit holes SAM-HYM-P019377

Edgemead, Cape Town. Photograph © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum).

Female SAM-HYM-P088315 (SAMC)


Kleinmond. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum). Male SAM-HYM-P088315 (SAMC)

Kleinmond. Photograph © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum).

Distribution	Worldwide.
Biology	Larval-pupal parasitoid of a wide range of Lepidoptera (Arctiidae, Geometridae, Hesperiidae, Lasiocampidae, Lycaenidae, Noctuidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Plutellidae, Psychidae, Saturniidae, Thaumetopoeidae, Yponomeutidae), and also a few Coleoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera.
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. 1976. African Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera): new taxa, synonymies and combinations. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 39: 9–31. 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. Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae (10th Edition). 1:824+iiipp. Stockholm. Mitroiu, M.D. 2013. A review of the Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) parasitizing synanthropic flies in Romania. Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Al. I. Cuza" Iasi (Biologie Animala) 59: 147-151. Noyes, J.S. 2018. Universal Chalcidoidea Database, Natural History Museum London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index.html van Noort, S., Fernandez-Triana J., Baur, H. 2022. Identity of wasp parasitoids (Hymenoptera) attacking Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) in South Africa. African Entomology 30: e11738 https://doi.org/10.17159/2254-8854/2022/a11738
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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