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Ismarus Haliday

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

Ismarus Haliday, 1835. Type species: Cinetus dorsiger Haliday

Classification

Ismarus africanus Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018
 
Ismarus apertus Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018
Ismarus bicolor Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018

Ismarus goodrichi Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018

 

Ismarus halidayi Förster, 1850

Ismarus kakamegensis Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018
  Ismarus kenyensis Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018 (Kenya)
  Ismarus laevigatus Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018 (South Africa)
  Ismarus madagascariensis Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018 (Madagascar)
  Ismarus minutus Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018 (Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe)
  Ismarus nigrofasciatus Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018 (Malawi, Uganda)

 

Ismarus notaulicus Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018 (Kenya)

Ismarus rawlinsi Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018

  Ismarus steineri Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018 (Madagascar)
 

Ismarus watshami Kim, Copeland & Notton, 2018 (Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Distribution

 

Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Hyperparasitoids of Cicadellidae through larvae of Dryinidae.

References

Chambers VH. 1955. Some hosts of Anteon spp. (Hym. Dryinidae) and a hyperparasite Ismarus
(Hymenoptera. Belytidae). Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 91: 114–115.

Chambers VH. 1981. A host for Ismarus halidayi Foerst. (Hym., Diapriidae). Entomologist’s
Monthly Magazine
117: 29.
Comério EF, Perioto NW, Lara RIR. 2016. A New Species of Ismarus Haliday (Hymenoptera:
Ismaridae) from Brazil and a New Occurrence Record for Ismarus gracilis Masner. Entomo Brasilis 9(3): 197–201. https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v9i3.589
Jervis MA. 1979. Parasitism of Aphelopus species (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) by Ismarus dorsiger (Curtis) (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae). Entomologist’s Gazette 30: 127–129.

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

Kim CJ, Notton DG, Řdegaard F, Lee JW. 2018. Review of the Palaearctic species of Ismaridae Thomson, 1858 (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea). European Journal of Taxonomy 417:
1–38. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.417

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
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Kozlov MA. 1971. Proctotrupoids (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea) of the USSR. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva 54: 3–67.

Liu, J., Chen, H., & Xu, Z. 2011. Notes on the genus Ismarus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from China. ZooKeys 108: 49–60. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.108.768

Masner, L. 1976. A revision of the Ismaridae of the New World (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Diapriidae). The Canadian Entomologist 108: 1243-1266. doi:10.4039/Ent1081243-11.

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.

Masner L, García JL. 2002. The genera of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) in the New
World. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 268: 1–138. https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2002)268<0001:TGODHD>2.0.CO;2
Nixon GEL. 1957. Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Diapriidae subfamily Belytinae. Handbooks
for the Identification of British Insects 8(3dii): 1–107.
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.

Sharkey, M., 2007. Phylogeny and classification of Hymenoptera. Zootaxa 1668: 521–548.

Sharkey, M. J., Carpenter, J. M., Vilhelmsen, L., Heraty, J., Liljeblad, J., Dowling, A. P.G., Schulmeister, S., Murray, D., Deans, A. R., Ronquist, F., Krogmann, L. and Wheeler, W. C. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera. Cladistics 28: 80–112. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00366.x

Tussac H, Tussac M. 1991. Récapitulatif d’une collecte de Dryinidae et Diapriidae (Hym.
Chrysidoidea et Proctotrypoidea). Entomologiste 47(4): 189–194.
Wall I. 1967. Die Ismarinae und Belytinae der Schweiz. Entomologische Abhandlungen 35:
123–265.

Credits

Photographs © Chang-Jun Kim (Korea National Arboretum) or © Robert Copeland (ICIPE).

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


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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