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Monomachus Klug

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Diaprioidea; Family: Monomachidae)

Monomachus Klug, 1841

 

Monomachus antipodalis Westwood (Australia)

 

Monomachus australicus Girault (Australia)

 

Monomachus comptus Musetti & Johnson, 2000 (New Guinea)

 

Monomachus cracens Musetti & Johnson, 2000 (New Guinea)

 

Monomachus hesperius Naumann, 1985 (Australia)

 

Monomachus mocsaryi (Szépligeti, 1903) (Brazil)

 

An additional 20 species occur in the Neotropical region

Monomachus species (Australia)

Distribution

Australia, New Guinea and South America.

Biology

Parasitoids of Boreoides and Chiromyza (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) attacking the host fly eggs with the wasp larva developing in the host larva and emerging from the larva or puparia.

References

Johnson, N.F. 1992. Catalog of world Proctotrupoidea excluding Platygastridae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1-825. doi:10.5281/zenodo.23657

Johnson NF, Musetti L. 2012. Genera of the parasitoid wasp family Monomachidae (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea). Zootaxa 3188: 31–41.

Klug, JCF. 1841. Die Arten der Gattung Pelecinus (Latr.). Zeitschrift für die Entomologie, herausgegeben von Ernst Friedrich Germar 3(2): 377-385; pl.2.

Masner, L. 1993. Superfamily Proctotrupoidea (pp. 537-557). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Musetti L, Johnson NF. 2004. Révision des espčces du genre Monomachus (Hymenoptera : Proctotrupoides, Monomachidae) du Nouveau Monde. The Canadian Entomologist 136 : 501–552.

Sharkey, M., 2007. Phylogeny and classification of Hymenoptera. Zootaxa 1668: 521–548.

Sharkey, M. J., Carpenter, J. M., Vilhelmsen, L., Heraty, J., Liljeblad, J., Dowling, A. P.G., Schulmeister, S., Murray, D., Deans, A. R., Ronquist, F., Krogmann, L. and Wheeler, W. C. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera. Cladistics 28: 80–112. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00366.x

Townes H, Townes M. 1981. A revision of the Serphidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 32: 1-541.

Yoder, M. 2021. The Diapriidae. http://www.diapriid.org/projects/4/public/site/diapriid/home

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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