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Spalangiopelta Masi

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

Spalangiopelta Masi, 1922.

Classification

 

Spalangiopelta alata Boucek, 1953

Spalangiopelta albigena Darling, 1991

Spalangiopelta alboaculeata Darling, 1995

Spalangiopelta apotherisma Darling & Hanson, 1986

Spalangiopelta brachyptera Masi, 1922

Spalangiopelta canadensis Darling, 1991

Spalangiopelta ciliata Yoshimoto, 1977

Spalangiopelta darlingi Moseran de Kamp & Krogmann, 2021

Spalangiopelta dudichi Erdös, 1955

Spalangiopelta felonia Darling & Hanson, 1986

Spalangiopelta georgei Darling, 1997

Spalangiopelta hiko Darling, 1995

Spalangiopelta laevis Darling, 1991

Spalangiopelta procera Graham, 1966

Spalangiopelta rameli Mitroiu, 2016
  Spalangiopelta semialba Moseran de Kamp & Krogmann, 2021

Spalangiopelta viridis Mitroiu, 2016

Distribution

Afrotropical, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic.

Biology Spalangiopelta alata is a parasitoid of the leaf miner Scaptomyza flava (Drosophilidae) feeding on Cakile maritima (Brassicaceae) (Bouček, 1961).

References

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea, a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. 832 pp.

Burks R, Mitroiu M-D, Fusu L, Heraty JM, Janšta P, Heydon S, Papilloud ND-S, Peters RS, Tselikh EV, Woolley JB, van Noort S, Baur H, Cruaud A, Darling C, Haas M, Hanson P, Krogmann L, Rasplus J-Y. 2022. From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach to rendering Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera) monophyletic. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 94:13-88. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.94.94263

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.

Mitroiu M.-D. 2016. Review of world genera of Ceinae, with the description of two new Palaearctic species of Spalangiopelta Masi (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 251: 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.251.

Mitroiu M-D, Burks RA, Rasplus J-Y. 2024. Ceidae, Chapter 14 in J.M. Heraty and J.B. Woolley, Chalcidoidea of the World, CABI Press, Oxford, UK.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1980. An illustrated guide to the families of African Chalcidoidea. Rep. S. Afr., Dept. Agric. Fish. Sci. Bull. No. 395: 1-66.

Credits

Photographs © Mircea-Dan Mitroiu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași).


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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