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Conobregma bradpitti Quicke & Butcher

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Rogadinae; Tribe: Yeliconini; Genus: Conobregma)

Conobregma bradpitti Quicke & Butcher, 2016. Holotype in Hymenoptera Institute Collection, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Type locality: South Africa, Madlangula, Kosi Bay.

Conobregma bradpitti: 1 habitus; 2 face, anterior aspect; 3 head and mesosoma, dorsal aspect; 4 mesosoma, including propodeum, and anterior half of metasoma, oblique aspect; 5 mesosoma to tergite 2, dorsal aspect; 6 metasoma, dorsal aspect. Photographs © Buntika A. Butcher (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

Etymology

The species is named after Buntika Butcher's favourite film actor, Brad Pitt, whose poster adorned the wall of her laboratory during her doctoral studies.

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

South Africa.

References

Butcher BA, Quicke DLJ, Shreevihar S, Ranjith AP. 2016. Major range extensions for two genera of the parasitoid subtribe Facitorina, with a new generic synonymy (Braconidae, Rogadinae, Yeliconini). ZooKeys 584: 109–120. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.584.7815

Quicke DLJ. 2015. Biology, Systematics, Evolution and Ecology of Braconid and Ichneumonid Parasitoid Wasps. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, 688 pp.

van Achterberg C. 1991. Revision of the genera of the Afrotropical and W. Palaearctic Rogadinae Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 273: 1–102.

van Achterberg C. 1995. Generic revision of the subfamily Betylobraconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and other groups with modified fore tarsus. Zoologisches Verhandelingen, Leiden 298: 1–242.

Zaldivar-Riverón A, Mori M, Quicke DLJ. 2006. Systematics of the cyclostome subfamilies of braconid parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea): a simultaneous molecular and morphological Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 130–145. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.08.006

Zaldivar-Riverón A, Shaw MR, Sáez AG, Mori M, Belokobylskij SA, Shaw SR, Quicke DLJ. 2009. Evolution of the parasitic wasp subfamily Rogadinae (Braconidae): phylogeny and evolution of lepidopteran host ranges and mummy characteristics. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 329. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-329

Credits

Photographs © Buntika A. Butcher (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand).

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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