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Triaspis Haliday

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

Helcon (Triaspis) Haliday, 1835. Type species: Sigalphus caudatus Nees, 1816.

  Triaspis angustiventris de Saeger,1948
  Triaspis bambusae de Saeger,1948
  Triaspis daci (Szépligeti,1911)
  Triaspis emarginata (Szépligeti,1914)
  Triaspis mervarki Papp,1999
  Triaspis nobilis de Saeger,1948
  Triaspis pygmaea (Szépligeti,1913)
  Triaspis semiareola Papp,1999
Triaspis simplicifrons (Brues,1924)
  Triaspis terebra (de Saeger,1948)
  Triaspis testacea (Szépligeti,1914)
  Triaspis wittei de Saeger,1948

Distribution

Afrotropical.

Biology

Solitary endoparasitoids of larvae of beetles in families Curculionidae and Bruchidae.

Reference

Brues, C.T. 1924. Some South African parasitic Hymenoptera of the families Evaniidae, Braconidae, Alysiidae, and Plumariidae in the South African Museum with a catalogue of the known species. Annals of the South African Museum 19: 1-150.

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. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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