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Xenarcha Foerster

of the Afrotropical Region

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

Xenarcha Foerster, 1863.Type species. Rogas (Colastes) lustrator Haliday, 1836.

Subgenus Pseudophanomeris Belokobylskij, 1984. Type species. Colastes (Pseudophanomeris) unicolor Belokobylskij, 1984. Synonymy by Belokobylskij & Ku (2025).

Subgenus Shawiana van Achterberg, 1983. Type species. Exothecus laevis Thomson, 1892. Synonymy by Belokobylskij & Ku (2025).

Classification
Xenarcha (Pseudophanomeris) inopinatus (Belokobylskij, 2000) (South Africa)

Biology

 Parasitoids of Olive Flea beetles Argopistes (Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini).

Distribution

South Africa.

References

Белокобыльский, С.А., 2000. Новые таксоны браконид подсем. Exothecinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) из тропиков и субтропиков Старого Света. 2. Энтомологическое обозрение, 79(1), pp.180-203. [Belokobylskij S.A. 2000. A NEW TAXA OF BRACONIDS OF THE SUBFAMILY EXOTHECINAE (HYMENOPTERA, EXOTHECINAE) FROM THE TROPICS AND SUBTROPICS OF THE OLD WORLD].

Belokobylskij SA, Ku D 2025. Genera Colastes Haliday, Colastinus Belokobylskij, and Xenarcha Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Exothecinae) from the Korean Peninsula with a discussion on the Exothecinae genus and subgenus composition. ZooKeys 1236: 141-183. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1236.148928.

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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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