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  Prosevania cristatifrons (Kieffer)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Evanioidea; Family: Evaniidae; Genus: Prosevania)

Prosevania cristatifrons (Kieffer, 1909) .  

Classification

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Predators of cockroach eggs. Evaniids oviposit into the concealed egg cases (ootheca) and the larvae feed on the eggs and pupate inside the ootheca.

References

Benoit, P. L. G. 1949. Nouveaux Evaniidae du Congo belge appartenant aux genres Zeuxevania, Evania, et Prosevania. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 42: 274-284.

Benoit, PLG. 1951. Evaniidae (Hymenoptera Terebrantia). Exploration du Parc National Albert. Mission G. F. de Witte (1933-1935) 73: 19-25.

Brues CT. 1918. A new species of Evania from the Cameroons (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae). Psyche 25: 93-95.

Brues, CT. 1924. Some South African parasitic Hymenoptera of the families Evaniidae, Bracenidae {sic}, Alysiidae, and Plumariidae, in the South African Museum with a catalogue of the known species. Annals of the South African Museum 19: 1-150.

De Saeger, H. 1943. Contribution à l’étude des Hyménoptères du Congo belge Evaniidae. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 37: 331-348.

Deans AR, Yoder MJ, Dole K. 2019. Evanioidea Online - catalog of information about evanioid wasps (Hymenoptera). http://evanioidea.info

Deans, A.R. 2005. Annotated catalog of the world's ensign wasp species (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 34: 1-164.

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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