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Sigalphus Latreille

of the Afrotropical Region

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

Sigalphus Latreille, 1802.

Classification

 

Sigalphus fulvus Brues,1926 (South Africa)
  Sigalphus testaceus Granger,1949 (Madagascar)
 

Sigalphus neavei (Turner,1917) (Zimbabwe)

Biology

Solitary endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera larvae.

Distribution

Madagascar, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

References

Brues, C.T. 1926. Studies on Ethiopian Braconidae with a catalogue of the African species. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 61:206-436.

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-186.

Cameron, P. 1909. On some African species of Braconinae in the Royal Berlin Zoological Museum. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab 30: 1-27. 
Cameron, P. 1910. On some African species of the subfamilies Exothecinae, Aphrastobraconinae, Cheloninae, Doryctinae, Cardiochilinae and Microgasterinae in the Royal Berlin Zoological Museum. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 81: 433-450.

Cameron, P. 1911. On the parasitic Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse, Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2: 173-217.

Sharkey, M.J. and Braet, Y. 2012. New species of the rare genera Dentigaster Zettel, 1990 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae) and Minanaga Cameron, 1906 (Sigalphinae) from French Guiana. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 25: 93-102.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1970. Braconidae 2. Helconinae, Calyptinae, Mimagathidinae, Triaspinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1973. Braconidae 6. Cheloninae. Hymenopterorum Catalog, Pars 11: 937-1114.

Tan, J-L., He J-H., Chen, X-X. 2010. The Genus Minanga Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, With Description of a New Subgenus and Species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 103: 360-365. https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/103/3/360/85613

van Achterberg, C. and Austin, A.D. 1992. Revision of the genera of the subfamily Sigalphinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), including a revision of the Australian species. Zoologische Verhandelingen 280: 1-44.

Credits

Photographs and 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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