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Epitranus
anervosus Steffan,
1957
Epitranus clavatus (Fabricius,1804)
Epitranus
clypealis Masi,
1943
Epitranus
cyclogaster (Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
denticulatus
(Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
emissicius Steffan,
1957
Epitranus
evanioides (Westwood,
1835)
Epitranus
exultans Steffan,
1957
Epitranus
filicornis Steffan,
1957
Epitranus
formicarius Walker,
1862
Epitranus frequens Masi, 1940 |
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Epitranus
hamoni (Risbec,
1957) |
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Epitranus
incensitus Steffan,
1957
Epitranus
inops Steffan,
1957
Epitranus
intermedius (Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
kivuensis (Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
longepetiolatus
(Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
nitidus (Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
observator Walker,
1862
Epitranus
opificus Steffan,
1957
Epitranus
rubricolor (Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
ruficornis (Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
rufus (Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
ruptator Walker,
1862
Epitranus
rwindianus (Schmitz,
1946)
Epitranus
sudanensis (Ruschka,
1924)
Epitranus
torymoides (Risbec,
1953) |
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Distribution |
Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritania,
Mauritius, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan,
Uganda. Also Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceanic,
Oriental regions. |
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Biology |
Parasitoids of Lepidoptera Tineidae, Pyralidae, and
Crambidae (Narendran, 1989). Some species are myrmechopiles or
termitophiles living in nests of these social insects (Narendran, 1989;
Rasplus, 1993). |
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References |
Delvare, G. 2017. Order Hymenoptera, family Chalcididae.
Arthropod fauna of the UAE 6: 229-232.
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.
Heraty, J.M., Burks, R.A., Cruaud, A., Gibson, G.A.P.,
Liljeblad, J., Munro, J., Rasplus, J.-Y., Delvare, G., Janšta, P., Gumovsky, A.,
Huber, J., Woolley, J.B., Krogmann, L., Heydon, S., Polaszek, A., Schmidt, S.,
Darling, D.C., Gates, M.W., Mottern, J., Murray, E., Dal Molin, A., Triapitsyn,
S., Baur, H., Pinto, J.D., van Noort, S., George, J. & Yoder, M. 2013. A
phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).
Cladistics 29: 466–542.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12006
Narendran, T.C. 1989. Oriental Chalcididae
(Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Kerala, India:
University of Calicut, Department of Zoology, Zoological Monograph, 441
pp.
Rasplus, J.-Y. 1993. L'entomofaune des termitières
mortes de Macrotermes. Description
d'une nouvelle espèce de Spalangia et note sur une espèce rare d'Epitranus
(Hymenoptera,
Pteromalidae, Chalcididae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (N.S.),
15 (2): 81–84. |
Credits
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Photographs © Gerard Delvare (Cirad-CBGP,
Montferrier-sur-Lez Cedex France). |
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