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Diapriidae

Diapriid wasps of Africa and Madagascar

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Proctotrupoidea)

Classification

  Ambositrinae
  Belytinae
  Diapriinae
  Ismarinae

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Endoparasitoids of mostly Diptera, and rarely Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.

Reference

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

Masner, L. 1993. Superfamily Proctotrupoidea (pp. 537-557). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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