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Spathioplites Fischer

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

Spathioplites Fischer, 1962

ClassificationDoryctinae keys

Spathioplites phreneticus Fischer, 1962

Distribution

Chad, Senegal, South Africa.

Biology

Parasitoid of wood-boring beetle larvae: Lyctus hipposideros Lesne, 1908, or Enneadesmus forficula (Fairmaire, 1883) (Coleoptera, Bostrichidae),  developing within a subspecies of the Umbrella thorn acacia: Vachellia tortilis subsp. raddiana (Savi) Kyal. & Boatwr. (van Noort et al. 2021).

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.
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.

van Noort S, Belokobylskij SA, Touret-Alby A. 2021. Rediscovery of the endemic Afrotropical genus Spathioplites (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) with major range extension records for Spathioplites phreneticus. African Invertebrates 62(2): 497–520. https://doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.62.74103

Credits

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