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Doryctinus Roman

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Doryctinae)

Doryctinus Roman, 1910. Type species: Exothecus rugulosus Cresson, 1872.

Acrophasmus Enderlein 1912. Synonymy by Kula and Marsh, 2011.

Classification

Doryctinus africanus Belokobylskij, 2013

Biology

Reared from beetle larvae in the genera Scobicia Lesne, 1901 (Bostrichidae); Lyctus Fabricius, 1792 and Minthea Pascoe, 1866 (Lyctidae); and Hypothenemus Westwood, 1836 (Scolytidae).

Distribution

Afrotropical, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceanic regions.

References

Belokobylskij, S.A. 2013. The First Record of the Genus Doryctinus Roman, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) in the Old World, with description of a new species from Africa. Annales Zoologici 63: 113-122. doi: 10.3161/000345413X666165

Roman, A. 1924. Wissenshaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen entomologischen Reise des Herrn Dr. A. Roman in Amazonas 1914–15, 10. Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Cyclostomi prop. Arkiv for Zoologi 16(20): 1–40.

Credits

Photographs © Sergey A. Belokobylskij (Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)


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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