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Dilyta Förster

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family: Figitidae; Subfamili: Charipinae)

Dilyta Förster, 1869

Classification

 

Dilyta africana (Benoit, 1956)

 

Dilyta australafricana Paretas-Martínez & Pujade-Villar, 2009

 

Dilyta ghanana Paretas-Martínez, Pujade-Villar & Melika, 2009

 

Dilyta kenyana Paretas-Martínez & Pujade-Villar, 2009

 

Dilyta somaliana Paretas-Martínez, Pujade-Villar & Evenhuis, 2009

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Hyperparasitoids of Psyllidae via Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).

References

Paretas-Martínez, J., Arnedo, M.A., Melika, G., Selfa, J., Seco-Fernández, M.V., Fülöp, D., Pujade-Villar, J. 2007. Phylogeny of the parasitic wasp subfamily Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae) Zoologica Scripta 36: 153–172.
Paretas-Martinez, J.; Melika, G.; Pujade-Villar, J. 2009. Description of four new species of Dilyta Förster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) from the Afrotropical Region. African Entomology 17: 207-214.

Quinlan, J. & Evenhuis, H. H. 1980. Status of the subfamily names Charipinae and Alloxystinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Systematic Entomology 5: 427–430.

Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica Scripta 28:139–164.

Credits

 

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town)

Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages


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