Trybliographa Förster

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Madagascar. Worldwide, most diverse in Holarctic region.

Biology

Parasitoids of Anthomyiidae and occasionally other calyptrate flies in dung, fungi, debris.

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Notes on some New Zealand and Australian Parasitic Hymenoptera, with descriptions of new genera and new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 327–360.

Förster, A. 1869. Ueber die Gallwespen. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 19: 327-370.

Weld, L.H. 1951. A new species of Trybliographa (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 14: 331–332.
Weld, L.H. 1951. New Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 53(4): 223-224.

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.