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Doryctinae

Doryctine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

   
   

Biology

Solitary ectoparasitoids (idiobiont) of xylophagus and stem-boring Coleoptera larvae.

Distribution

Worldwide

References

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

Marsh, P.M. 1965. The Nearctic Doryctinae, 1.A review of the subfamily with a revision of the tribe Hecabolini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58:668-699.


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