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Platyplectrus Ferrière

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

Platyplectrus Ferrière, 1941.
 

Platyplectrus albiclavatus Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus ambositrae (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Platyplectrus ausensis (Ferrière, 1941) (South Africa)

Platyplectrus brevicornis (Ferrière, 1941) (South Africa)

Platyplectrus capensis Ferrière, 1941 (South Africa)

Platyplectrus desertus Yefremova, 2008

Platyplectrus kayaensis Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus kiambuensis Ferrière, 1941 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus marenjeensis Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus meruensis (Delucchi, 1962) (Tanzania)
 

Platyplectrus mrimaensis Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus nigroflaveatus Yefreova, 2022

Platyplectrus nitidiceps (Ferrière, 1941) (South Africa)

Platyplectrus ngangaoensis Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus nyambeneensis Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus nyanzaensis Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus obscurata (Ferrière, 1941) (Malawi, South Africa, Uganda)

Platyplectrus ornatus Ferrière, 1941 (South Africa, Tanzania)

Platyplectrus pseudoorntus Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus pyrrhomaculatus Yefremova, 2023 (Kenya)

Platyplectrus striolata (Ferrière, 1941) (South Africa)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Mainly parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of leafminers, or of other small sheltered larvae or pupae. Some species are egg parasitoids (Boucek, 1988).

References

Boucek, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. pp. 832pp. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd; Aberystwyth, Wales.

Credits

Photographs © 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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