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Plumariidae

Plumariid wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

Myrmecopterina Bischoff, 1914
  Myrmecopterinella Day, 1977
 

Parapenesia Kieffer, 1910

Distribution

Arid and semi-arid areas in South America (Ecuador to Chile and Argentina) and southern Africa (South Africa to Namibia and Zimbabwe).

Biology

Unknown. Females have been collected under rocks and males are attracted to light.

Diversity

Less than 20 species in five genera.

References

Brothers, D.J. 2011. A new Late Cretaceous family of Hymenoptera, and phylogeny of the Plumariidae and Chrysidoidea (Aculeata). In: Shcherbakov, D.E., Engel, M.S., Sharkey, M.J. (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Fossil and Modern Insects: Honouring Alexandr Rasnitsyn. ZooKeys 130: 515–542. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1591

Day, M.C. 1977. A new genus of Plumariidae from southern Africa, with notes on Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Cimbebasia 4: 171-177.

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.

Terayama, M. 2006. Bethylidae (Hymenoptera). In: Insects of Japan. 1-317pp. Edited by the Entomological Society of Japan. Fukuoka, Japan: Touka Shoboo Co. Ltd.

Credits

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