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Dolichogenidea Viereck

of the Afrotropical region

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Microgastrinae)

Dolichogenidea Viereck,1911

Classification

 

Dolichogenidea agamedes (Nixon, 1965) (Mauritius. Also Oriental region: Vietnam)

Dolichogenidea appellator (Telenga, 1949) (Cape Verde, Ghana, Senegal. Also Palaearctic region: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Selvagens Islands, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia)

Dolichogenidea argiope (Nixon, 1965) (South Africa. Australian region: Australia, Fiji, Vanuatu; Oriental region: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore; Palaearctic region: Korea)

Dolichogenidea ashoka Rousse, 2013 (Reunion)

 

Dolichogenidea biplagae (Fischer,1968) (Ivory Coast)

Dolichogenidea broadi Rousse, 2013 (Reunion)

 

Dolichogenidea cameroonensis Walker,1994 (Cameroon)

Dolichogenidea candidata (Haliday, 1834) (Cape Verde. Also Palaearctic region: Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Macedonia, Mongolia, Romania, Russia (KHA, KDA, PRI, SAK), Serbia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan)

 

Dolichogenidea coffea (Wilkinson, 1930) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Uganda)

Dolichogenidea coniferae (Haliday, 1834) (Cape Verde. Also Palaearctic region: Azerbaijan, Germany, Hungary, Mongolia, Romania, Russia (KDA), Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan)

Dolichogenidea diparopsidis (Lyle, 1927) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Dolichogenidea discreta (Szépligeti, 1914) (Kenya, Madagascar)

Dolichogenidea earterus (Wilkinson, 1930) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sudan)

Dolichogenidea eros (Wilkinson, 1932) (South Africa)

Dolichogenidea ficicola Donaldson, 1991 (South Africa)

Dolichogenidea fuscivora Walker, 1994 (Ethiopia, Kenya)

Dolichogenidea hyalinis (Hedqvist, 1965) (Cape Verde)

Dolichogenidea incompleta (Szépligeti, 1914) (Kenya, Tanzania)

Dolichogenidea lumba Rousse & Gupta, 2013 (Reunion)

 

Dolichogenidea pelops (de Saeger,1944) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal)

Dolichogenidea polaszeki Walker,1994 (Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia)

Dolichogenidea uru Rousse & Gupta, 2013 (Reunion)

Dolichogenidea villemantae Rousse, 2013 (Reunion)

 

Dolichogenidea wittei (de Saeger,1944) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda)

Dolichogenidea zeris Papp, 2012 (Cape Verde)

Dolichogenidea species (South Africa)

Biology

Solitary or gregararious endoparasitoids (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larvae.

Distribution

Worldwide.

References

Austin, A.D. & Dangerfield, P.C. 1992. Synopsis of Australian Microgasterinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with a key to genera and a description of new taxa. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6:1-76.

Fernandez-Triana JL, Whitfield JB, Smith MA, Dapkey T, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH 2016. Review of the world species of Exoryza (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with description of five new species. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 63(2): 195-210. doi: 10.3897/dez.63.8977

Fernandez-Triana, J & Boudreault, C. 2018. Seventeen new genera of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from tropical areas of the world. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 64: 25-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.64.25453

Fernandez-Triana J, Shaw MR, Boudreault C, Beaudin M, Broad GR 2020. Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 920: 1-1089. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.920.39128

Mason, W.R.M. 1981. The polyphyletic nature of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. No. 115. 147pp.

Nixon, G.E.J. 1965. A reclassification of the tribe Microgasterini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology series. Supplement 2:1-284.

Risbec, J. 1951. Les Microgasterinae de l'Afrique occidentale francaise. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire, 13,411–473.

Rousse, P. & Gupta A. 2013. Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local species, including 18 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa 3616 (6): 501–547. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.1

Shenefelt, R.D. 1972. Braconidae 4. Microgasterinae Apanteles. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 7:429-668.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1973. Braconidae 5. Microgasterinae amd Ichneutinae. Hymenopterum Catalogus, Pars 9:669-812.

Whitfield, J.B., Mardulyn, P., Austin, A.D. & Dowton, M. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships among microgastrine braconid wasp genera based on data from the 16S, COI and 28S genes and morphology. Systematic Entomology, 27, 337–359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00183.x

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

Credits

Photographs © Pascal Rousse (Iziko South African Museum) or © Jose L Fernandez-Triana (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada).

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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