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Comnatopus van Achterberg

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Stephanoidea; Family: Stephanidae; Subfamily: Stephaninae)

Comnatopus van Achterberg,  2002. Type species: Stephanus comma Morley, 1917.

 

Comnatopus xanthocephalus (Cameron, 1912)

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Uganda.

Biology Host: unknown.

References

Aguiar, A.P. 2004. World catalog of the Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea). Zootaxa 753: 1–120.

Benoit, P.L.G. 1949. Les Stephanoidae (Hym.) du Congo belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 42:285-294.
Benoit, P.L.G. 1984. Stephanidae de l'Afrique occidentale et centrale (Hymenoptera). Revue de Zoologie Africaine. 98:215-228.

Cameron, P., 1912. On the Hymenoptera from Belgian Congo in the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annales de la Societé Entomologique Belge 56: 357-401.

Ceballos, G. 1926. Estefanidos del Museo de Madrid (Hym. Stephanidae). Eos. 2(2):135-148.
Elliott, E.A. 1922. Monograph of the hymenopterous family Stephanidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3:705-831.
Engel, M.S. 2005. The crown wasp genus Electrostephanus (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae): Discovery of the female and a new species. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. 74(3):317-332.
Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2004. The first Mesozoic stephanid wasp (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae). Journal of Paleontology. 78(6):1192-1197.
Engel, M.S. & Ortega-Blanco, J. 2008. The fossil crown wasp Electrostephanus petiolatus Brues in Baltic Amber (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae): designation of a neotype, revised classification, and a key to amber Stephanidae. ZooKeys. 4:55-64.
Entomologist. 50:105-113.
Morley, C. 1917. Some Stephanidae: with descriptions of new species. Entomologist. 50: 33-36.
Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K., Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

van Achterberg, C. 2002. A revision of the Old World species of Megischus Brullé, Stephanus Jurine and Pseudomegischus gen. nov., with a key to the genera of the family Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden. 339. 206 pp.

van Achterberg, C. & Quicke, D.L.J. 2006. Taxonomic notes on Old World Stephanidae (Hymenoptera): description of Parastephanellus matsumotoi sp. n. from Japan, redescription of Commatopus xanthocephalus (Cameron) and keys to the genera Profoenatopus van Achterberg and Megischus Brullé. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 149: 215–225, Figs. 1–16.

Credits

 
  Next genus: Foenatopus

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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