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Telenomus Haliday

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

Telenomus Haliday, 1833: 271. Type species: Telenomus brachialis Haliday.

Telenomus species

Telenomus species

 

Telenomus aleus Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus antennalis Fouts, 1934

 

Telenomus applanatus Bin & Johnson, 1982

 

Telenomus benefactor Crawford, 1911

 

Telenomus bini Polaszek & Kimani, 1990

 

Telenomus brimo Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus busseole Gahan, 1922

 

Telenomus casamencensis Risbec, 1957

 

Telenomus codrus Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus comopterygi Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus convolvuli Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus coranii Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus coreiphagus Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus creusa Polaszek & Kimani, 1990

 

Telenomus cybele Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus demodoci Nixon, 1936

 

Telenomus etielliphaga (Risbec, 1950)

 

Telenomus euphorbiae Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus eurystylusi Risbec, 1955

 

Telenomus flavicephalus Risbec, 1956

 

Telenomus fuscipes (Kieffer, 1913)

 

Telenomus gowdeyi, Crawford, 1911

 

Telenomus hersei Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus hyperion Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus iphias Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus lemoleae (Nixon, 1936

 

Telenomus mahensis Kieffer, 1910

 

Telenomus monticola (Kieffer, 1913)

 

Telenomus myrmidon Kieffer, 1910

Telenomus nanus Sundholm, 1970

 

Telenomus narolus Nixon, 1937

 

Telenomus nemesis Polaszek & Kimani, 1990

 

Telenomus nepele Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus numitor Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus oriplanus (Kieffer, 1913)

 

Telenomus phegeus Nixon, 1938

 

Telenomus polycrates Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus procas Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus pseudocorani Risbec, 1957

 

Telenomus pylades Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus pylus Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus pyramus Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus sciron Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus sechellensis Kieffer, 1910

 

Telenomus sirphidi Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus soudanensis (Risbec, 1950)

 

Telenomus splendens Sundholm, 1970

 

Telenomus striatus Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus thestor Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus thoas Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus tityrus Nixon, 1935

 

Telenomus tolli Risbec, 1950

 

Telenomus ullyetti Nixon, 1936

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

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

References

Ghesquière, J. 1948. Contribution à l’étude des Microhyménoptères du Congo belge. XII. Un Proctotrupien phorétique nouveau (Hym. Scelionidae). Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines 40: 323–327.

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.

Taekul, C., Valerio, A.A., Austin, A.D., Klompen, H. & Johnson, N.F. (2014. Molecular

Risbec, J. 1950. Contribution a l’étude des Proctotrupidae (Serphiidae). Pages 568–577. – In: Risbec, J., Travaux du Laboratoire d’Entomologie du Secteur Soudanis de Recherches agronomiques. Gouvernement Général de l’Afrique Occidentale Granéaise, Paris, 639 pp.

phylogeny of telenomine egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.: Telenominae): evolution of host shifts and implications for classification. Systematic Entomology 39: 24–35.

Veenakumari, K. & Notton, D. & Polaszek, A. 2019. World Revision of the Genus Protelenomus Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae: Telenominae). Annales Zoologici 69: 381-406.  https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.2.006

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Photographs of living specimen © Johan Heyns (Gauteng).


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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