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Gonatopodinae

Gonatopodine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

  Acrodontochelys Currado,1976

   

Adryinus Olmi,1984    

  Agonatopoides Perkins,1907

    

Apterodryinus Perkins,1907    

  Dicondylus Haliday,1830

   

Ecthrodelphax Perkins,1903    

Gonatopus Ljungh,1810

    

Gynochelis Brues,1906    

  Haplogonatopus Perkins,1905

    

Neodryinus Perkins,1905    

  Pseudogonatopus Perkins,1905

    

Tetradontochelys Richards,1939    

Distribution Worldwide.
Biology

Parasitoids of Leaf hoppers: Cicadellidae.

References

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

Olmi, M. & Copeland, R.S. 2011. A catalogue of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). African Invertebrates 52: 177–206.

Credits

Dryinidae image in head banner © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria).
 

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