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Afrotropical Evanioidea

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

 

Aulacidae
Evaniidae
Gasteruptidae

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Parasitoids of wood-boring beetle or sawfly larvae, or predators of either bee and wasp eggs and larvae, or cockroaches.

Reference

Mason, W.R.M. 1993. Superfamilies Evanioidea, Stephanoidea, Megalyroidea and Trigonalyoidea (pp. 510-520). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

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