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Fopius Wharton

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

Fopius Wharton, 1987.  Type species: Rhynchosteres (Fopius) silvestrii Wharton, 1987.

Classification
 

Fopius bevisi (Brues, 1926) (Kenya, South Africa, U.S.A.)         

Fopius caudatus (Szépligeti, 1913) (Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, U.S.A.)

Fopius ceratitivorus Wharton, 1999 (Guatemala, Kenya, South Africa)           

Fopius desideratus (Bridwell, 1919 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Uganda) Fopius longicauda (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)            

Fopius niger (Szépligeti, 1913) (Tanzania)            

Fopius okekai Kimani-Njogu & Wharton, 2002  (Kenya)          

Fopius ottotomoanus (Fullaway, 1957) (Cameroon)            

Fopius pyknothorax (Fischer, 1971) (South Africa)           

Fopius rubrithorax (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)            

Fopius ruficornis (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)            

Fopius rufotestaceus (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)            

Fopius silvestrii (Wharton, 1987) (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Kenya)

Biology

Solitary endoparasitoids of Cyclorrhapha (Diptera) larvae.

Distribution

Worldwide.

References

Fischer, M. 1971. Index of entomophagous insects, Hym., Braconidae, World Opiinae. Le François, Paris, France. 189 pp.

Fischer, M. 1972. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae I) Das Tiereich 91, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xii + 620 pp.

Fischer, M. 1977. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae II-Amerika). Das Tiereich 91, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xxvii + 1001 pp

Fischer, M. 1987. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae III-äthiopische, orientalische, autralische und oceanische Region. Das Tierreich 104, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xv + 734 pp.

Haran J, Grove T, van Noort S, Benoit L, Addison, P. 2019. Natural biocontrol of fruit flies by parasitoids in indigenous hosts: a perspective for management of populations in and out of the orchard. Biological Control 137: October 2019, 104022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2019.104022

van Achterberg, C. & Prinsloo, G.L. 2012. Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Opiinae, Alysiinae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining Diptera on Lagarosiphon major (Hydrocharitaceae) in South Africa. African Entomology 20: 124–133.

Credits

 Photographs © 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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