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Laelius Ashmead

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Bethylidae; Subfamily: Epyrinae)

Laelius Ashmead, 1893. Type species: Laelius trogodemiatis Ashmead by original designation.

Prolaelius Kieffer 1905, 1: 253. 8. Type species: Paralaelius firmipennis Cameron 1905.

Laelius akares Barbosa & Azevedo, 2009

Laelius firmipennis (Cameron, 1905)

Laelius mekes Barbosa & Azevedo, 2009

Laelius pumbaai Marques, Colombo & Azevedo, 2023
Laelius sarabiae Marques, Colombo & Azevedo, 2023
Laelius scari Marques, Colombo & Azevedo, 2023
Laelius simbai Marques, Colombo & Azevedo, 2023
Laelius timoni Marques, Colombo & Azevedo, 2023

 

Laelius zirae Marques, Colombo & Azevedo, 2023

Distribution

Worldwide. Afrotropical region: Central African Republic, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania.

Biology

Parasitoids of the larvae of Dermestidae (Coleoptera).

References

Ashmead WH. 1893. A monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum of Washington 45: 463.

Azevedo CO, Garcia R, Gobbi FT & van Noort S. 2015. Insecta, Hymenoptera, Bethylidae: range extension and filling gaps in Central African Republic. Check List 11: 1-4.

Barbosa DN & Azevedo CO. 2009. Laelius Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Madagascar, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 2170: 1 – 14.

Marques WJ, Colombo WD, Azevedo CO. 2023. Insights into the systematics of Afrotropical Laelius (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae): combining molecular and morphological data to associate dimorphic species. Zoologischer Anzeiger 306: 90-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2023.07.003

Credits

Photographs © Celso Azevedo & Diego Barbosa (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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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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