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Cheiropachus Westwood

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

Cheiropachus Westwood, 1829. Type species: Ichneumon quadrum Fabricius, 1787.

 

  Cheiropachus bekiliensis Risbec, 1952 (Madagascar)

Cheiropachus quadrum (Fabricius, 1787)

 

Cheiropachus phytolaccae (Risbec, 1960) (Madagascar)

 

 10 other species.

Distribution

Worldwide, except for Indo-Australasian region.

Biology

Primary parasitoids of Bostrychidae, Cerambycidae, and Curculionidae (including
Scolytinae) (Coleoptera), and Drosophilidae (Diptera) (Khanday et al. 2019, UCD 2024).

Reference

Khanday, Lateef & Sureshan, Pavittu & Buhroo, Abdul & A.P., Ranjith & Tselikh, Ekaterina. 2019. Pteromalid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) associated with bark beetles, with the description of a new species from Kashmir, India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 12: 262-272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2019.01.014.

UCD Community. 2024. Universal Chalcidoidea Database Website. https://ucd.chalcid.org.

Credits

Photographs © 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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