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Aprostocetus Westwood

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

Aprostocetus Westwood 1833. Type species: Aprostocetus caudatus Westwood 1833, by monotypy.

 

Aprostocetus species

 

Aprostocetus ambilobei (Risbec, 1958)
 

Aprostocetus ankaratrae Risbec, 1952

 

Aprostocetus aphloiae (Risbec, 1958)
 

Aprostocetus aspidomorphae Ferrière, 1938

 

Aprostocetus beatus (Perkins, 1906)
 

Aprostocetus brevistylus Masi, 1940
 

Aprostocetus camerounensis (Risbec, 1955)
 

Aprostocetus cassidocida Risbec, 1951

 

Aprostocetus ceroplastae (Girault, 1916)

 

Aprostocetus dineuri (Risbec, 1958)

 

Aprostocetus diplosidis Crawford, 1907

Aprostocetus exertus La Salle, 2009
 

Aprostocetus formosanus (Timberlake, 1921)

 

Aprostocetus ghananensis (Doganlar, 1993)

 

Aprostocetus gowdeyi (Crawford, 1912)

 

Aprostocetus gravans (Silvestri, 1915)

 

Aprostocetus hagenowii (Ratzeburg, 1852)

 

Aprostocetus harongae (Risbec, 1952)

 

Aprostocetus lamiicidus Kerrich, 1963

 

Aprostocetus leroyi (Risbec, 1958)

 

Aprostocetus leucopterae (Ferrière, 1936)

 

Aprostocetus melichlorus (Waterston, 1915)

 

Aprostocetus negetae Risbec, 1951

 

Aprostocetus nitens Prinsloo & Kelly, 2009

 

Aprostocetus pauliani (Risbec, 1952)

 

Aprostocetus phytolymae Risbec, 1947

 

Aprostocetus procerae (Risbec, 1951)

 

Aprostocetus regnieri (Risbec, 1955)

 

Aprostocetus roseveari Ferrière, 1931

 

Aprostocetus salebrosus Robinson, 1962
 

Aprostocetus senegalensis (Risbec, 1951)
 

Aprostocetus senegalensis (Risbec, 1951)
 

Aprostocetus sicarius (Silvestri, 1915)
 

Aprostocetus spinicornis (Risbec, 1957)
 

Aprostocetus stictococci (Silvestri, 1915)

Aprostocetus theioneurus (Masi, 1917)
 

Aprostocetus toddaliae (Risbec, 1958)
 

Aprostocetus trichionotus Robinson, 1962

 

Aprostocetus tritus Prinsloo & Kelly, 2009

 

Aprostocetus ugandaensis (Girault, 1917)

Aprostocetus species

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

The largest genus in the Tetraschinae with species exhibiting a diverse range of biology, from phytophagous gall formers to egg, larval or pupal endoparasitoids.

References

La Salle, J. 1993. Aprostocetus (Ootetrastichus) theioneurus (Masi) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae): a hyperparasitoid on the cereal stem borer Chilo partellus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Africa. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 67: 445-451.

La Salle, J., Ramadan, M. & Kumashiro, B.R. 2009. A new parasitoid of the Erythrina Gall Wasp, Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Zootaxa 2083: 19–26.

Masi, L. 1917. Chalcididae of the Seychelles islands. (With an appendix by J.J.Kieffer.) Novitates Zoologicae 24:121-330.
Polaszek, A. & LaSalle, J. 1995. The hyperparasitoids (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae, Encyrtidae, Eulophidae, Eurytomidae) of cereal stem borers (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Pyralidae) in Africa. African Entomology 3(2): 131-146

Prinsloo, G. L. & Kelly, J.A. 2009. The tetrastichine wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) associated with galls on Erythrina species (Fabaceae) in South Africa, with the description of five new species. Zootaxa 2083: 27–45.

Yang M-M., Lin Y-C., Wu Y., Fisher N., Saimanee T., Sangtongpraow B., Zhu C., Chiu W.C-H. & La Salle J. 2014. Two new Aprostocetus species (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae), fortuitous parasitoids of invasive eulophid gall inducers (Tetrastichinae) on Eucalyptus and Erythrina. Zootaxa 3846 (2): 261–272.

Credits

Photographs © Nicole Fisher (CSIRO) or 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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