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Cosmophorus
brevipetiolatus Quicke & van Achterberg,2000 (Democratic
Republic of Congo) |
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Cosmophorus
godfrayi Quicke & van Achterberg,2000 (Uganda) |
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Cosmophorus merdiculatus Rousse & Braet, 2012 (Reunion) |
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Cosmophorus minutus
van Achterberg,2000 (Swaziland) |
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Cosmophorus
robustus van Achterberg,2000 (South Africa) |
Diagnosis
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Antenna with 11–21 flagellomeres, apical
flagellomere without a spine. Toruli protruding as much as width of
scape, anterior margin raised in one or two sharp points. Maxillary
and labial palpi with, respectively, 4 and 1 segments. Face wider
than clypeus. Median frontal carina often extending to median
ocellus. Vertex flattened, without groove medially or shallowly
depressed. Anterior ocellus usually at same level as posterior ones.
Occipital carina present, interrupted medio-dorsally, ventrally
straight and joining hypostomal carina. Mandible robust, nearly as
broad basally as apically, lower tooth medium or small but distinct.
Subocular sulcus absent. Prepectal carina present. Mesopleuron
smooth to partly rugose. Forewing with Rs+M, r-m and
R1 absent, 2/ Cu and 3/Cu at the same level.
Hind wing with A absent, 2/Sc+R short to medium sized.
Dorsope absent. Ovipositor straight or slightly sinuated apically,
at most somewhat wavy (Rousse &
Braet, 2012). |
Biology
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Solitary endoparasitoids (koinobiont) of
Coleoptera (barkboring and woodboring Scolytidae and
Curculionidae). |
Distribution
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Worldwide, except South
America. |
References
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Rousse, P. & Braet,
Y. 2012.
Braconid wasps (Hymenoptera) of Reunion. 1. Euphorinae (including Meteorini):
key to species and description of six new species. Zootaxa 3449:
26–46.
Shaw,
M.R. and T. Huddleston 1991. Classification and biology of braconid wasps
(Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Handbooks for the Identification of the British
Insects, Vol. 7, Part 11. Royal Entomological Society of London, London,
England. 126pp.
Shaw,
S.R. 1985. A phylogenetic study of the subfamilies Meteorinae and Euphorinae
(Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Entomography 3:277-370.
Shenefelt,
R.D. 1969. Braconidae 1. Hybrizoninae, Euphorinae, Cosmophorinae, Neoneurinae,
Macrocentrinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 4:1-176.
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Credits
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Phototographs by Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN. Visit
the MNHN database
http://coldb.mnhn.fr |
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