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Heterospilus Haliday

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

Heterospilus Haliday, 1836.

Bracon (Synodus) Ratzeburg, 1884 (preoccupied by Bracon Gronovius, 1763 and Bracon Latreille, 1828)
Caenophanes Foerster, 1862 (new name for Synodus Ratzeburg. Synonymized by Ashmead, 1900)
Telebolus Marshall, 1888 (synonymized by Muesebeck & Walkley, 1951)
Kareba Cameron, 1904 (synonymized by Marsh, 1973)
Anacatostigma Enderlein, 1920 (1918) (synonymized by Marsh, 1973)
Harpagolacus Enderlein, 1920 (1918) (synonymized by Belokobylskij, 1992)

Classification

  Heterospilus coffeicola Schmiedeknecht, 1924 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
Heterospilus species (South Africa)

Distribution

Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda.

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae (mainly Scolytidae, less frequently Bruchidae or Curculionidae); or stem-boring sawflies (Symphyta) and Lepidoptera; or associated with nests of Microstigmus (Crabronidae) (Marsh et al. 2013).

References

Belokobylskij, S.A. 1992. [On the classification and phylogeny of the braconid wasps subfamilies Doryctinae and Exothecinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) Part 1.] Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye. 71(4):900-927. [Entomological Review. 72(6):109-137.]
Fischer, M. 1962. Neue Braconiden-Parasiten von schädlichen Insekten (Hymenoptera). Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie. 49:297-312.

Marsh, PM., Wild, AL., Whitfield, JB. 2013. The Doryctinae (Braconidae) of Costa Rica: genera and species of the tribe Heterospilini. ZooKeys 347: 1-474. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002 ,

Shenefelt, R.D. & P.M. Marsh 1976. Braconidae 9. Doryctinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 13:1263-1424.

van Achterberg, C. 1993. Illustrated key to the subfamilies of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen 283: 1-189.

Credits

Photographs © Alan Manson https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70934935

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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