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Belytinae

Belytine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

  Acanthopsilus Kieffer, 1908
Aclista Förster, 1856
Belyta Jurine, 1807
Cinetus Jurine, 1807

  Masnerosema Sundholm, 1971
Miota Förster, 1856
  Oxylabis Förster, 1856
Pantoclis Förster, 1856

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Endoparasitoids of mostly Diptera, and rarely Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.

References

Förster. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studien. II. Heft. Chalcidae und Proctotrupii. Ernst ter Meer, Aachen. 152 pp.

Johnson, N.F. 1992. Catalog of world Proctotrupoidea excluding Platygastridae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1-825. doi:10.5281/zenodo.23657

Jurine L. 1807. Nouvelle méthode de classer les Hyménoptères et les Diptères. Paschoud, Geneva. 319 pp.

Kieffer JJ. 1908. Proctotrypidæ (suite). Species des Hyménoptères d'Europe et d'Algérie 10(3): 289-448. doi:10.5281/zenodo.24301

Kieffer JJ. 1912. Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2. series, Zoology, 15 (1): 45-80, pls 2, 3.
Kieffer JJ. 1912. Hymenoptera Fam. Diapriidae. In: Wytsman P. (ed.), Genera Insectorum 124: 75 pp.

Kieffer, J. J. 1913. Proctotrupidae, Cynipidae et Evaniidae. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911-1912). Resultats scientifiques. Hymenoptera 1: 1-35

Madl M. 2015. A catalogue of the families Ceraphronidae, Megaspilidae (Ceraphronoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea) and Proctotrupidae (Proctotrupoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitraege 47(1): 621–652.

Masner, L. 1993. Superfamily Proctotrupoidea (pp. 537-557). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Özdikmen H. 2010. New names for some preoccupied specific epithets in the superfamily Diaprioidea (Hymenoptera). Munis Entomology & Zoology 5(2): 745-752.

Risbec J. 1954. Chalcidoides et Proctotrupoides de l’Afrique occidentale française (3. Supplément). Bulletin de l'Institut Française de l’Afrique Noire 16 (2): 524-552.

Risbec J. 1955. Diaprinae et Ceraphroninae de Madagascar (Hym. Proctotrupidae). Revue Française d' Entomologie 22 (3): 205-221.

Risbec J. 1957. Hyménoptères, Proctotrupidae et Chalcidoïdes. Mémoires de l’Institut scientifique de Madagascar (E) 8: 321-366.

Sundholm, A. 1970. Hymenoptera. Proctotrupidae. In: Hanstrom, B, Brink, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds.) South African Animal Life. Lund: Berlingska Boktryckeriet 14: 306-401.

Tymochko LI, Cuaranhua C, Gumovsky, AV. 2021. Habitat distribution of diapriid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Diaprioidea) in eastern Mozambique. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-021-00529-0

Yoder, M. 2021. The Diapriidae. http://www.diapriid.org/projects/4/public/site/diapriid/home

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or

Photographs © Alex Gumovsky (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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