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Ismarus halidayi Förster

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

Ismarus halidayi Förster, 1850. Holotype in ?). Type locality: ?.

Ismarus longicornis Thomson, 1858: 378. Synonymy by Kolyada and Chemyreva (2016).
Ismarus mongolicus Szabó, 1974: 23. Synonymy by Kolyada and Chemyreva (2016).

Distribution

South Africa. Also Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Reared from Anteon jurineanum Latreille and A. infectum (Haliday) (Dryinidae)
(Chambers 1955; Olmi 2000).

References

Chambers VH. 1981. A host for Ismarus halidayi Foerst. (Hym., Diapriidae). Entomologist’s
Monthly Magazine
117: 29.

Kim C-J, Copeland RS, Notton DG. 2018. The family Ismaridae Thomson (Hymenoptera, Diaprioidea): first record for the Afrotropical region with description of fourteen new species. African Invertebrates 59(2): 127-163. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.59.24403

Kolyada VA, Chemyreva VG. 2016. Revision of species of the genus Ismarus Haliday, 1835
(Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea: Ismaridae) of the Russian fauna. Far Eastern Entomologist
318: 1–19.

Olmi M. 2000. Bio-ecologia degli Imenotteri Driinidi e loro impiego in programmi di lotta biologica. In: Lucchi A (Ed.) La Metcalfa negli ecosistemi italiani. ARSIA, Firenze, 93–117.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


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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