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Anthoboscinae

Anthoboscine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

  Anthobosca Guerin, 1838
  Paramyzine Berg, 1898

Distribution

Worldwide, but absent from Oriental region.

Biology

Ectoparasitoids of Scarabaeidae larva.

Reference

Bartalucci, M.B. 2005. Anthoboscinae and Myzininae (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae) from Madagascar. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 2005: 1077–1097.

Brothers, D.J. & Finnamore A.T. 1993. Superfamily Vespoidea (pp. 161-278). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Day, M.C., Else, G.R. & Morgan, D. 1981. The most primitive scoliidae (Hymenoptera). Journal of Natural History 15: 671–684.

Kimsey, L.S. 1991. Relationships among the tiphiid wasp subfamilies (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 16: 427-438.

Kimsey, L.S. 2009. Review of the Malagasy Anthobosca, the bizarre and the sublime(Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Anthoboscinae). Zootaxa 2175: 1–18.

Krombein, K.V. 1949. Studies in the Tiphiidae. VII. The Madagascan species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 51: 45–73.

Magretti, P. 1884. Risultati di raccolte imenotterologische nell’Africa Orientale. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturelle di Genova (2ª) 1: 523–567.

Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the British Museum, London. 240 pp.

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