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Gnathochorisis Förster

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

Gnathochorisis Förster, 1869. Type species:

Gnathochorisis malavensis Varga, 2021 (Kenya)
Gnathochorisis ventralis Varga, 2021 (Kenya)

Distributions

Kenya.

Also Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Hosts: Gnathochorisis flavipes was reared from the fungus gnat, Neoempheria striata (Meigen, 1818) (Mycetophilidae: Mycomyinae) (Varga, 2021).

References

Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K., Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

Varga, O. 2021. First record of the genus Gnathochorisis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from the Afrotropical region, with descriptions of two new species from Kenya. Zootaxa 5052: 441–446. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.3.9

Credits

Photographs © Olexsandra Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology).

 

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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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