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Braconidae

of the Afrotropical Region

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

ClassificationIdentification keys

  Acampsohelconinae

Agathidinae

Alysiinae

Amicrocentrinae

Aphidiinae

  Blacinae
  Brachistinae

Braconinae

Cardiochilinae

Charmontinae

Cheloninae

 

Dirrhopinae

Doryctinae

Ecnomiinae

Euphorinae

  Exothecinae
 

Gnamptodontinae

Helconinae

 

Homolobinae

  Hormiinae
 

Ichneutinae

Khoikhoiinae

  Lysiterminae

Macrocentrinae

 

Meteorideinae

Apanteles_nigrofemoratus_habitus

Microgastrinae

 

Miracinae

Opiinae

Orgilinae

  Pambolinae
  Rhysipolinae
Rhyssalinae

Rogadinae

Sigalphinae

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology Koinobiont or idiobiont endoparasitoids of insect immature stages or adults. Most commonly larva of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, but also Hemiptera nymphs and adults; Orthoptera and Psocoptera nymphs; adult Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Chrysopidae; Symphyta larvae; Diptera larva; Isoptera and Embioptera.

References

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Belokobylskij, S.A. 2011. Review of the genus Stephanospathius Belokobylskij, 1992 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with discussion of their tribal position. Zookeys. 118 :1-17.

Belokobylskij, S.A. 2013. The First Record of the Genus Doryctinus Roman, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) in the Old World, with description of a new species from Africa. Annales Zoologici 63: 113-122. doi: 10.3161/000345413X666165

Belokobylskij, S.A. 2020. Two new species of the genus Neoheterospilus Belokobylskij, 2006 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Yemen. Zootaxa 4853: 591–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4853.4.8.

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