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Zombrus Marshall

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

Zombrus Marshall, 1897.

ClassificationDoryctinae keys

Zombrus species (South Africa)
 

Zombrus anisopus Marshall, 1897 (Egypt, Saudi Arabia)

Zombrus antennalis Szépligeti, 1914 (Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea)

Zombrus atriceps (Brues, 1924) (South Africa)

Zombrus baculiger (Enderlein, 1912) (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo)     

Zombrus bimaculatus Szépligeti, 1914 (Togo)

Zombrus cameroni Szépligeti, 1913 (Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa)

Zombrus concolor Szépligeti, 1914 (Togo)

Zombrus croceipes (Brues, 1926) (Cameroon)

Zombrus duplicatus (Brues, 1924) (Mozambique, South Africa)

Zombrus erythrostomus Cameron, 1912 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Zombrus flaviceps Cameron, 1912 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda)

Zombrus fuscipennis (Szépligeti, 1902) (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Uganda)

Zombrus giganteus Szépligeti, 1911 (Tanzania)

Zombrus insularis (Schulz, 1906) (Bioko, Equatorial Guinea)

Zombrus maculiceps (Cameron, 1906) (Mozambique)

Zombrus maculifrons (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

Zombrus maculipennis (Brullé, 1846) (Senegal)

Zombrus madagascariensis Marshall, 1897 (Madagascar)

Zombrus melanopterus Cameron, 1912 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Zombrus minor Szépligeti, 1918 (Namibia)

Zombrus nigricornis (Brullé, 1846) (Senegal)

Zombrus nigripennis (Kriechbaumer, 1894) (Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa)

Zombrus nigripes (Cameron, 1906) (South Africa)

Zombrus nigromaculatus (Cameron, 1904) (South Africa)

Zombrus orientalis Szépligeti, 1914 (Tanzania)

Zombrus pedalis (Brues, 1924) (South Africa)

Zombrus pulcher Szépligeti, 1914 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo)

Zombrus rufus (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

Zombrus semistriatus (Brullé, 1846) (Senegal, Tanzania)

Zombrus semialbus Szépligeti, 1914 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Zombrus similis Szépligeti, 1906 (Tanzania)

Zombrus spilopterus Cameron, 1910 (South Africa)

Zombrus thomseni Szépligeti, 1918 (Namibia)

Zombrus tuberculatus Cameron, 1912 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Zombrus wagneri Szépligeti, 1915 (Cameroon)

Biology

Parasitoids of xylophagous Coleoptera larvae (Cerambycidae).

Distribution

Afrotropical, Australian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.

References

Fischer M. 1983. Illustrierte Redeskriptionen von Arten aus den Gattungen Zombrus
Marshall, Nervellius Roman und Liodoryctes Szepligeti (Hymenoptera, Braconidae,
Doryctinae). Polskie Pismo Entomologicne 53 (3): 311-336

Marshall T.-A. 1897-1900. Les Braconides (Supplément). Andre E. (ed.), Species des Hyménoptères d’Europe et d’Algerie Tome 5e bis. Paris (V. Dubosclard): 373 pp., 1
page without number, 1*-72*, 15 pls.

Papp J. 2003. Type specimens of the braconid species described by T.A. Marshall and
deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 95: 135-146.

Credits

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


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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