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Marietta leopardina Motschulsky

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

Marietta leopardina Motschulsky, 1863   

Classification
Distribution Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland; also Neotropical and Palaearctic regions.
Biology Obligatory hyperparasitoids of Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae) nymphs through Tamarixia radiata (Eulophidae) and Diaphorencyrtus aligarhensis (Encyrtidae).

References

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Hoddle, C., Hoddle, M. & Triapitsyn, S. 2013. Marietta leopardina (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) and Aprostocetus (Aprostocetus) sp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) are Obligate Hyperparasitoids of Tamarixia radiata (Eulophidae) and Diaphorencyrtus aligarhensis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Florida Entomologist 96: 643-646. http://dx.doi.org/10.1653/024.096.0236

Credits

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

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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