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Cardiochiles
angustifrons Brues, 1924 (Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa) |
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Cardiochiles
bequaerti Brues, 1926
(Democratic Republic of Congo) |
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Cardiochiles
calvus Huddleston & Walker, 1988 (Niger) |
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Cardiochiles
longiceps Roman, 1910 (Cameroon,
Democratic
Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, Tanzania) |
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Cardiochiles
phostriae de Saeger, 1948 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone) |
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Cardiochiles
minutigeri Shenefelt, 1973 (Madagascar) |
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Cardiochiles
pictithorax Granger, 1949 (Madagascar) |
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Cardiochiles
scapularis Brues, 1926 (South Africa) |
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Cardiochiles
xanthocarpus Szépligeti, 1913 (Tanzania) |
Biology
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Endoparasitoids (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larvae. |
Distribution
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Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial
Guinea, Liberia, Madagascar,
Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania.
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References
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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.
Brues, C.T. 1926. Studies on Ethiopian Braconidae with a
catalogue of the African species. Proceedings of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 61:206-436.Dangerfield PC, Austin AD, Whitfield JB. 1999. Systematics of the world
genera of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy
13: 917-976.
Edmardash YA, Gadallah NS & Sharkey MJ. 2018.
Revision of the subfamily Cardiochilinae Ashmead, 1900 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
in Egypt, with new records and a new species. Journal of Natural History
52: 269 - 297.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1420834
Huddleston, T., & Walker. A.T. 1988. Cardiochiles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae),
a parasitoid of the lepidopterous larvae, in the Sahel of Africa, with a review
of the biology and host relationships of the genus. Bulletin of the
Entomological Research 78:435-461.
Mason,
W.R.M. 1983. A new South African subfamily related to Cardiochilinae
(Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute
20:49-62.
Shenefelt,
R.D. 1973. Braconidae 5. Microgasterinae amd Ichneutinae. Hymenopterum
Catalogus, Pars 9:669-812.
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Credits
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Photographs © Iziko Museums of South Africa.
Map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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