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Marres dicomas Walker

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Chalcididae; Subfamily: Cratocentrinae; Genus: Marres)

Marres dicomas Walker, 1841. Holotype in London (NHMUK). Type locality: Gambia.

Larradomorpha insignis Stadelmann 1892.  Holotype in ?. Type locality:  West Africa.

Classification

Distribution

Gambia.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Delvare, G. & Copeland, R.S. 2026. Traveling among the giants: a revision of Marres Walker (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae, Cratocentrinae) with the description of Marres copelandi sp. nov. from Kenya. Zootaxa 5894: 270–280. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5894.2.8

Steffan, J.R. 1959. Revision de la tribu des Cratocentrini (Hymen. Chalcididae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 33: 287-325.

Walker, F. 1841. Description of Chalcidites. Entomologist 1: 217-220.

Credits

Photographs © Gerard Delvare (CBGP).Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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