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Platygastrinae

Platygastrine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification
  Acerotella Masner 1964
  Aceroteta Kozlov & Masner 1977
  Allostemma Masner & Huggert 1989
  Ambylaspis Förster 1856
  Holocoeliella Huggert 1981
  Inostemma Haliday 1833
  Iphitrachelus Haliday 1835
  Isostasius Förster 1856
Leptacis Förster 1856
  Mandraka Risbec 1953
  Platygaster Latrielle 1809
  Proleptacis Kieffer 1926

 Synopeas Förster 1856

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

 Koinobiont parasitoids of gall midge (Cecidomyiidae) eggs developing only after the host has reached pupal or prepupal stage.

Reference

Masner L. 1993. Superfamily Platygastroidea (pp. 558-565). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

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