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Dryinidae

Dryinid wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

Anteoninae

 

Aphelopinae

  Apoaphelopinae
Apodryininae
 

Bocchinae

 

Conganteoninae

Dryininae

Gonatopodinae

 

Thaumatodryininae

Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Parasitoids of homopteran nymphs and adults (Cicadellidae, Delphacidae and Flatidae most commonly parasitized out of a total of 12 families). Adult female dryinids usually have a chelate foretarsus for grasping the host bug during oviposition. The Dryinid larva initially develops inside the host, but then extrudes in a characteristic sac that bulges out of the host's abdomen. Pupation occurs on the host food plant or in the soil.
Diversity 1100 species.

References

Finnamore, A.T. & Brothers, D.J. 1993. Superfamily Chrysidoidea (pp. 130-160). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Olmi, M. 2002. Description of two new species of Dryinidae from Botswana: Bocchus martellii and Gonatopus martellii (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Boll. Zool. Agr. Bachic. (Ser. II) 34 (3), 273-280.

Olmi, M. 2004. New species of Dryinidae and Embolemidae from Madagascar (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica (2002) (N. S.) XXV (XXXVIII), 86-109.

Olmi, M. 2004. A contribution to the knowledge of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of Northern Mozambique. Oriental Insects 38: 353-372.

Olmi, M. 2005. A contribution to the knowledge of  Afrotropical Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 141: 233-247.

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. 2007. Apodryininae of Madagascar and South Africa (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae). Frustula entomologica (N.S.), 30 (43): 1-46.

Olmi, M. 2008. New species of Dryinidae from the Afrotropical Region (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea). Spixiana 31: 215-221.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town). Dryinidae image in head banner © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria). Illustration © Nicolò Falchi.

 

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