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Heterospilus species

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

Heterospilus species.

 

Classification

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Parasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae (mainly Scolytidae, less frequently Bruchidae or Curculionidae); or stem-boring sawflies (Symphyta) and Lepidoptera; or associated with nests of Microstigmus (Crabronidae) (Marsh et al. 2013).

References

Belokobylskij, S.A. 1992. [On the classification and phylogeny of the braconid wasps subfamilies Doryctinae and Exothecinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) Part 1.] Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye. 71(4):900-927. [Entomological Review. 72(6):109-137.]
Fischer, M. 1962. Neue Braconiden-Parasiten von schädlichen Insekten (Hymenoptera). Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie. 49:297-312.

Marsh, PM., Wild, AL., Whitfield, JB. 2013. The Doryctinae (Braconidae) of Costa Rica: genera and species of the tribe Heterospilini. ZooKeys 347: 1-474. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002 ,

Shenefelt, R.D. & P.M. Marsh 1976. Braconidae 9. Doryctinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 13:1263-1424.

van Achterberg, C. 1993. Illustrated key to the subfamilies of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen 283: 1-189.

Credits

Photographs © Alan Manson https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70934935

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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