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Telenominae

Telenomine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

ClassificationIdentification keys

  Eumicrosoma Gahan 1913
  Nirupana Nixon 1935
 

Paratelenomous Dodd, 1914

  Phanuromyia Dodd 1914
 

Protelenomus Kieffer, 1906

 

Psix Kozlov, 1976

Telenomus Haliday, 1833

 

Trissolcus Ashmead, 1893

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Idiobiont endoparasitoids of insect (Neuroptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera) eggs.

References

Johnson, N. F. 1992. Catalog of world Proctotrupoidea excluding Platygastridae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1-825.

Masner, L. 1976. Revisionary notes and keys to world genera of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 97: 1-87.

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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