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Trichogrammatoidea Girault

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

Trichogrammatoidea Girault, 1911.

Classification

 

Trichogrammatoidea citri (Risbec, 1955) (Madagascar) 

Trichogrammatoidea combretae (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal) 

Trichogrammatoidea cryptophlebiae Nagaraja, 1979 (South Africa)

 

Trichogrammatoidea eldanae Viggiani, 1979 (Bolivia, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria) 

Trichogrammatoidea kayo (Risbec, 1951) (Burkina Faso) 

Trichogrammatoidea lutea Girault, 1911 (Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Trichogrammatoidea nana (Zehntner, 1896) (Afrotropical: Kenya, St. Lucia; worldwide except Nearctic) 

Trichogrammatoidea simmondsi Nagaraja, 1979 (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi) 

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology Egg parasitoids of Coleoptera, Diptera and Lepidoptera.

References

Berg, M.A. van den; Newton, P.J.; Deacon, V.E. and Crause, C. 1987. Dispersal of Trichogrammatoidea cryptophlebiae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), and egg parasitoid of the false codling moth Cryptophlebia leucotreta (Tortricidae) in an empty habitat. Phytophylactica. 19(4): 515-516.

Boucek, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. pp. 832pp. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd; Aberystwyth, Wales.

Chambers, B.Q., Samways, M.J. and Ironside, D.A. 1995. Egg distribution of the fruit borers Cryptophlebia leucotreta (Meyrick) and C. batrochopa (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and their egg parasitoid Trichogrammatoidea cryptophlebiae Nagaraja (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) in macadamia trees in Malawi. African Entomology. 3(2): 181-188.

Foerster, A. 1851. Eine Centurie neuer Hymenopteren. Vierte und fünfte Dekade. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, Bonn 8: 1-42, 1 plate.

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.

Gibson, G.A.P., Huber, J.T., Woolley, J.B. (Editors) 1997. Annotated keys to the genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) :794pp National Research Council Research Press, Ottawa, Canada.

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

Laudonia S, Viggiani G, Biondi S. 2017. A new species of Poropoea Foerster from Africa (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Trichogrammatidae). ZooKeys 658: 81–87. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.658.11501

Nagaraja, H. 1979. Studies on Trichogrammatoidea (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). Oriental Insects 12(4): 489-530.

Pinto, J.D. & George, J. 2004. Kyuwia, a new genus of Trichogrammatidae (Hymenoptera) from Africa. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106: 531-539.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1984. An illustrated guide to the parasitic wasps associated with citrus pests in the Republic of South Africa. Science Bulletin, Department of Agriculture, Republic of South Africa 402:

Viggiani, G. 2019. New genera, species, and records of Trichogrammatidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 161-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/fe.2019.377

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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