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Streblocera species

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

Streblocera Westwood, 1833.

Classification


Photographs © Alan Manson.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72762449


Biology

Host unknown, but other species are solitary endoparasitoids (koinobiont) of Chrysomelidae, (Coleoptera) emerging from adult host.

Distribution

South Africa.

References

Lee HR, An TH, Byon BK, Ku DS. 2016. 2016. Five newly recorded species of the genus Streblocera Westwood (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9: 468-471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2016.09.003

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.

Yu D.S., van Achterberg K., Horstmann K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

Credits

Photographs © Alan Manson.

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


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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