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Blacus Nees

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Blacinae)

Blacus Nees,1818. Type species: Bracon humilis Nees, 1811.
Blacus species (South Africa)
  Blacus (Blacus) Nees,1819
  Blacus (Ganychorus) Haliday,1835
  Blacus (Ischnotron) van Achterberg,1976
  Blacus (Tarpheion) van Achterberg,1976

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Endoparasitoids of beetle larvae (Coleoptera).

Reference

van Achterberg C. 1988. Revision of the subfamily Blacinae Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 249: 1–324.

Credits

 Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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