Aphidiinae


Male aphidiine wasp with mummified aphids (photograph © Simon van Noort)	Male aphidiine wasp with mummified aphids (photograph © Simon van Noort). Host plant Leonotis leonurus (Lamiaceae)
Male mounting female aphidiine wasp (photograph © Simon van Noort)



Photographs © Johan Heyns. Adult with the host mummified aphid that it emerged from (Heidelberg, Gauteng).

Biology	Solitary koinobiont endoparasitoids of Aphidae (Homoptera) nymphs and adults.
Distribution	Worldwide.
References	Cresson, E.T. 1880. Report of the commissioner of agriculture. Report of the Entomologist. U.S. Dep. Agric. 1879. pp 208, 235, 238. New York. Lee, J. E., Slabber, S., Jansen van Vuuren, B., van Noort, S. & Chown, S. L. 2007. Colonisation of sub-Antarctic Marion Island by a non-indigenous aphid parasitoid Aphidius matricariae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Polar Biology 30: 1195-1201. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-007-0277-z Muller L, Krüger K & Kfir R. 2014. First report of the aphid parasitoid Aphidius ervi Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Aphidiinae) from South Africa. African Entomology 22(1): 214-215. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.022.0126 Starý, P. 1970. Biology of aphid parasites (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) with respect to intergrated control. Series Entomologica 6. Junk, The Hague, The Netherlands. vii + 641pp.
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or photographs © Johan Heyns (Gauteng).