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Gnamptodontinae

Gnamptodontine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

   

Biology

Parasitoids of leaf-mining larvae of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera).

Distribution

Worldwide

References

Shenefelt, R.D. 1975. Braconidae 8. Exothecinae, Rogadinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 12:1115-1262.

Van Achterberg 1983. Revisionary notes on the subfamily Gnatodontinae, with a description of the eleven new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 126:25-57.

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