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Dioxybracon Granger

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

Dioxybracon Granger, 1949. Type species: Dioxybracon bimucronatus Granger, 1949.

Pedinopleura van Achterberg, 1984. Type species: Pedinopleura emarginata van Achterberg, 1984. Synonymy by Quicke et al, 2019.

Dioxybracon aurumoram Quicke & Butcher, 2019

Dioxybracon bimucronatus Granger, 1949

Dioxybracon maridadi Quicke & Butcher, 2019

Dioxybracon vannoorti Quicke & Butcher, 2019

Distribution

Aldabra, Ghana, Madagascar, South Africa, Uganda.

Also in the Australasian and Oriental regions.

Biology

Probably solitary or gregarious endoparasitoids of butterfly pupae.

Reference

Quicke DLJ, Villemant C, Butcher BA. 2019. The Afrotropical braconine genus Dioxybracon Granger with descriptions of four new species and new generic synonymy. Journal of Natural History, 53: 1673-1689. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1657975

Credits

Photographs © Donald Quicke and Buntika Butcher.

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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