Brasema Cameron

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

Brasema alasorae Risbec, 1956 (Madagascar)

Brasema andropogonae Risbec, 1956 (Madagascar)

Brasema fantsiliae Risbec, 1956 (Madagascar)

Brasema leersiae Risbec, 1956 (Cameroon, Madagascar)

Brasema mandrakae (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Brasema seyrigi (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Distribution

Cameroon, Madagascar, South Africa. Also worldwide.

Biology

Primary parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of a wide range of insects (Apionidae, Cecidomyiidae, Coccidae, Curculionidae, Cynipidae, Pteromalidae) usually developing within concealed situations such galls or cocoons or other plant substrates; a few species are predators or parasitoids of eggs (Homoptera, Mantodea, Orthoptera) (Gibson 1995; Universal Chalcidoidea Database Curators. 2022).

References

Brues, C.T. 1907. New chalcid-flies from Cape Colony. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society 5: 46-53.

Gibson, G.A.P. 1995. Parasitic wasps of the subfamily Eupelminae: classification and revision of world genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 5: 421 pp.

Gibson G.A.P. 2017. Synonymy of Reikosiella Yoshimoto under Merostenus Walker  (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae), with a checklist of world species and a revision of those species with brachypterous females. Zootaxa 4255: 1–65. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4255.1.1.

Risbec, J. 1951. 1. Les Chalcidoides de l'Afrique occidentale française. Mémoires de l'Institute Français d'Afrique Noire, Ifan-Dakar 13: 7-409.

Risbec, J. 1951. Chalcidoïdes d'A.O.F. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 13: 1110-1130.

Risbec, J. 1952. Contribution à l'étude des Chalcidoïdes de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institute Scientifique de Madagascar, Série E 2: 1–449.

Universal Chalcidoidea Database Curators. 2022. Universal Chalcidoidea Database Web (UCDW) curated in TaxonWorks. www.ucd.chalcid.org. Accessed on [17/08/2023].

Waterston, J. 1916. Chalcidoidea bred from Glossina morsitans in Nyasaland. Bulletin of Entomological Research 6: 381-393.

Waterston, J. 1916. Notes on African Chalcidoidea - V. Bulletin of Entomological Research 7(2): 123-132.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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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