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Heterospilus Haliday
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family:
Braconidae; Subfamily:
Doryctinae)
Heterospilus
Haliday, 1836.
Bracon (Synodus) Ratzeburg, 1884
(preoccupied by Bracon Gronovius, 1763 and Bracon
Latreille, 1828)
Caenophanes Foerster, 1862 (new name for Synodus
Ratzeburg. Synonymized by Ashmead, 1900)
Telebolus Marshall, 1888 (synonymized by Muesebeck & Walkley,
1951)
Kareba Cameron, 1904 (synonymized by Marsh, 1973)
Anacatostigma Enderlein, 1920 (1918) (synonymized by Marsh,
1973)
Harpagolacus Enderlein, 1920 (1918) (synonymized by
Belokobylskij, 1992)
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Heterospilus coffeicola Schmiedeknecht, 1924 (Cameroon, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) |
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Heterospilus
species (South Africa) |
Distribution
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Cameroon,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda.
Worldwide. |
Biology
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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
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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.
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Credits
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Photographs © Alan Manson
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70934935
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of
South Africa). |
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