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Psyttalia humilis (Silvestri)

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

Opius humilis Silvestri, 1913 Holotype in  . Type locality: South Africa.

Classification

 
Photographs by Chante Powell © Iziko Museums of South Africa.
 
Photograph © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Photographs © Julian Haran (CBGP, CIRAD, Montpellier SupAgro, INRA)

Biology

Solitary endoparasitoid of Tephritidae (Diptera) larvae.

Distribution

Kenya, Namibia, South Africa. Also Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic regions.

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

Silvestri, F. 1913. Viaggio in Africa per cercare parassiti di mosche dei frutti. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici 8:1-164.

Credits

Photographs by Chante Powell © Iziko Museums of South Africa or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Julian Haran (CBGP, CIRAD, Montpellier SupAgro, INRA)

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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