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Tersilochinae

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

Tersilochinae Schmiedeknecht 1910. Type genus: Tersilochus Fitton & Gauld 1976.

ClassificationIdentification keys

 

Allophrys Förster, 1869

Aneuclis Förster, 1869

 

Diaparsis Förster, 1869

Heterocola Förster, 1869

Meggoleus Townes, 1971

Phradis Förster, 1869

 

Probles Förster, 1869

 

Sathropterus Förster, 1869

 

Tersilochus Holmgren, 1859

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology Koinobiont endoparasitoids of Coleoptera (Curculionidae and Chrysomelidae) larvae, more rarely Symphyta larvae (hosts of one genus).

References

Fitton, M.G. and Gauld, I.D. 1976. The family-group names of the Ichneumonidae (excluding Ichneumoninae) (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology. 1:247-258.

Horstmann, K. 1971. Revision der europäischen Tersilochinen 1 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung (München). 15:47-138. 

Khalaim, A. 2007. First records of Meggoleus, Heterocola and Phradis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae) from the Afrotropical region, with description of four new species. African Invertebrates 48: 101-110.

Khalaim, A.I. 2009. South African species of Aneuclis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae). African Invertebrates 50: 123-136.

Khalaim, A.I. 2010. To the study of Afrotropical species of the genus Aneuclis Förster, 1869

(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae). Zoosytematica Rossica 19: 120–123.

Schmiedeknecht, O. 1910. Opuscula Ichneumonologica. IV. Band. (Fasc. XXIV-XXVI.) Ophioninae. Blankenburg in Thüringen. pp. 1841-2080.

Credits

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