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Euphorinae

Euphorine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

   

Biology

Solitary enparasitoids (koinobiont) of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Neuroptera, Psocoptera, Orthoptera and Hymenoptera larvae.

Distribution

Worldwide

References

Shaw, S.R. 1985. A phylogenetic study of the subfamilies Meteorinae and Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Entomography 3:277-370.

 

Shenefelt, R.D. 1969. Braconidae 1. Hybrizoninae, Euphorinae, Cosmophorinae, Neoneurinae, Macrocentrinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 4:1-176.

 

Shaw, M.R. and T. Huddleston 1991. Classification and biology of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Handbooks for the Identification of the British Insects, Vol. 7, Part 11. Royal Entomological Society of London, London, England. 126pp.

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