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Bocchus Ashmead

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

Bocchus Ashmead 1893. Type species: Bocchus flavicollis Ashmead 1893.

  Bocchus bini Olmi, 1984
  Bocchus botswanensis Olmi, 1989
  Bocchus brooksi Olmi, 2001
  Bocchus fynbosensis Olmi, 2006
  Bocchus hova Olmi, 2002
  Bocchus incompletus Olmi, 2005
  Bocchus kirkspriggsi Olmi, 2005
  Bocchus kogelbergensis Olmi 2007
  Bocchus krombeini Olmi, 1989
  Bocchus madagascolus Olmi, 1994
  Bocchus martellii Olmi, 2002
  Bocchus mkomazianus Olmi, 2005
  Bocchus niger Olmi, 2002
  Bocchus obscurus Olmi, 1994
 

Bocchus piceus Olmi, 2008

 

Bocchus richardsi Omi, 1984

 

Bocchus seyrigi (Benoit, 1953)

  Bocchus simoni Olmi, 2005 
  Bocchus turneri Olmi, 2011 (South Africa)
  Bocchus watshami Olmi, 1987
 

Bocchus whiteleyi Olmi 2007

  Bocchus zimbabwensis Olmi, 1989

Distribution

Afrotropical, Australian, Nearctic, Oriental & Palearctic regions.

Biology

Parasitoids of Issidae.

References

Ashmead W. H., 1893. Monograph of the American Proctotrypidae. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 45: 1-472.

Benoit P.L.G., 1953. Monographie des Dryinides Malgasches (Hym.-Acul.). Mém. Inst.. Sci. Madagascar, Sér. E, IV: 383-430.

Olmi M., 1984. A Revision of The Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst., 37: 1-947.

Olmi, M., 1987. Descrizone di nuove specie di Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Boll. Zool. agr. Bachic., Ser. II, 19: 31-70.

Olmi, M., 1989. Supplement to the Revision of the World Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea. Frustula Entomologica, Nuova Serie, vol. 12: 109-395.

Olmi M., 1994. New Species of Dryinidae from Madagascar (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula entomol., XVII: 1-12.

Olmi M., 2001. A Contribution to the Knowledge of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica, Nuova Serie, vol. 24: 21-49.

Olmi M., 2002. New Species of Dryinidae and Embolemidae from Madagascar (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula entomol., Nuova Serie 25: 86-109.

Olmi M., 2002. Descriptions of two new species of Dryinidae from Botswana: Bocchus martellii and Gonatopus martellii (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Boll. Zool. agr. Bachic., Ser. II, 34: 273-280.

Olmi M., 2005. A Contribution to the Knowledge of Afrotropical Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 141: 233-248.

Olmi, M. 2006. A catalogue of Dryinidae and Embolemidae of South Africa, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera Chrysidodea). Frustula entomologica (2005)(N.S.) vol. 28-29 (41-42): 1-57.

Olmi M., 2007. New species of Afrotropical Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), with description of a new genus and a new subfamily. African Invertebrates 48: 199-232.

Olmi, M. 2011. A contribution to the knowledge of world Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula entomologica (2009) (N.S.) XXXII (XLV): 43-76.

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