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Anacharis Dalman

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family: Figitidae; Subfamily: Anacharitinae)

Anacharis Dalman, 1823. Type species: Cynips eucharioides Dalman, 1818.

Megapelmus Hartig, 1840. Type species: Megapelmus spheciformis Hartig, 1840 (= Anacharis eucharioides (Dalman, 1818)).

Synapsis Förster, 1869. Type species: Synapsis aquisgranensis Förster, 1869 (= Anacharis immunis Walker, 1835), homonym of Synapsis Bates, 1868 (Coleoptera).

Prosynapsis Dalla Torre & Kieffer, 1910. Type species: Prosynapsis aquisgranensis (Förster, 1869) (= Anacharis immunis Walker, 1835) - replacement name for Synapsis Förster, 1869, due to homonymy.

Classification

Afrotropical species:
 

Anacharis afrotropica Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2015

  Anacharis madagascarensis Pujade-Villar, 2012
 

Anacharis rwenzori Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2015

Anacharis species
World species:
 

Anacharis afrotropica Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2015 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda)

Anacharis antennata Belizin, 1951 (China, Japan, Tajikistan)

Anacharis belizini Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2018 (Thailand)

Anacharis carpathica Ionescu

Anacharis ensifer Walker, 1835 (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom)

Anacharis eucharioides (Dalman, 1818) (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom)

Anacharis flavicornis Kieffer, 1909

Anacharis immunis Walker, 1835 (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom)

Anacharis lamyi Cockerell, 1899

Anacharis levifrons Kieffer, 1907

Anacharis madagascarensis Pujade-Villar, 2012 (Madagascar)

Anacharis marginataProvancher, 1887

Anacharis martinae Vogel, Forshage & Peters, 2024 (Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland)

Anacharis maxima Vogel, Forshage & Peters, 2024 (Germany, Sweden, Switzerland)

Anacharis melanoneura Ashmead, 1887

Anacharis mexicana (Cameron, 1884)

Anacharis minima Vogel, Forshage & Peters, 2024 (Germany)

Anacharis norvegica Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2018 (Norway, Sweden)

Anacharis petiolata Zetterstedt, 1838 (Finland, Germany, Greenland, Romania, Switzerland)

Anacharis parapsidalis Belizin, 1951 (China, Japan, Russia)

Anacharis pediculata Provancher, 1887

Anacharis punctatifrons Kieffer, 1908

Anacharis rwenzori Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2015 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Anacharis subcompressa (Provancher, 1881)

Anacharis tasmaniae Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2015)

Anacharis tripartita Kieffer, 1907

Anacharis tucumana Díaz, 1979

Anacharis typica Walker, 1835 (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom)

Anacharis zealandica Ashmead, 1900

Distribution

Afrotropical, Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical and Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Parasitoids of larvae of Hemerobiidae and Chrysopidae (Neuroptera).

References

Mata-Casanova N, Selfa J & Pujade-Villar J. 2015. Description of two new species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae, Anacharitinae) from the Afrotropical Region. African Entomology 23: 314–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.023.0222

Mata-Casanova N, Selfa J, Pujade-Villar J. 2018. Three new species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae), with revised taxonomy and distribution records of palaearctic and indomalayan species. European Journal of Taxonomy 414: 1–25. https://doi. org/10.5852/ejt.2018.414

Pujade-Villar, J. 2012. Anacharis madagascarensis sp. n., first record of Anacharitinae from Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae). African Entomology 20: 119-123.

Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica Scripta 28:139–164.

van Noort, S, Buffington ML & Forshage, M. 2015. Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). ZooKeys 493: 1-176. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.493.6353

Vogel J, Forshage M, Bartsch SB, Ankermann A, Mayer C, von Falkenhausen P, Rduch V, Müller B, Braun C, Krammer H-J, Peters RS. 2024. Integrative characterisation of the Northwestern European species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae) with the description of three new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 97: 621–698. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97.131350

Credits

 

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)

Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) and Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum of Natural History) both played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages.

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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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