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Apterogyninae

Apterogynine wasps of the World

 

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Scolioidea; Family: Bradynobaeinidae)

Classification

Apterogyna Latrielle, 1809
Gynecaptera Skorikov, 1935
Macroocula Panfilov, 1954
Micatagla Argaman, 1994
Apterogyninae species

Distribution

Afrotropical and Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Possibly parasitoids of Sun spiders (Solifugae). A record of a single species of Bradynobaenidae as an ectoparasitoid of Solifugae (Arachnida), that pupated within the host’s burrow (Brothers & Finnamore, 1993) is all that is currently known.

Diversity

About 150 described species in 4 genera.

References

André, E. 1909. Mutillides nouveaux ou imparfaitment connus to Musée royale d’histoire naturelle de Leide. Notes from the Lyden Museum 31: 171–180.

Aguiar AP, Deans AR, Engel MS, Forshage M, Huber JT, Jennings JT, Johnson NF, Lelej AS, Longino JT, Lohrmann V, Miko I. 2013. Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703: 51-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12

Argaman, Q. 1994. Generic synopsis of Apterogyninae (Hymenoptera: Apterogynidae). Folia entomologica Hungaric, 55: 41– 58.

Brothers, D.J. & Finnamore A.T. 1993. Superfamily Vespoidea (pp. 161-278). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Cascio, P.L & Pagliano, G. 2014. A new species of Micatagla from Socotra Island (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54: 423-427.

Gadallah N. S., Al Dhafer H. M., Aldryhim Y. N., Fadl H., El Gharbawy A. E. & Pagliano G. 2014. Apterogyninae (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae) from Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3754(4): 491–497.

Gadallah N. S. & Soliman A. M. 2014. The genus Micatagla Argaman, 1994 in Egypt, with three new species and a new record (Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae). ZooKeys 397: 71–81.

Gess, S.K. & Gess, F.W. 2014. Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. 320 pp.

Lelej, A.S., T. Osten, 2004. To the knowledge of the mutillid and bradynobaenid wasps of Iran (Hymenoptera: Mutililidae, Bradynobaenidae). Proceeding of the Russian Entomological
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75(1): 253–262.

Nonveiller,G, Pagliano G. 1995. Notes on some South African species of the genus Apterogyna Latreille, 1809 with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae). Studies on African mutillids (s.l.) 16 Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Bollettino (Turin) 131: 283-287.

Pagliano G. 2002. Revisione della sottofamiglia Apterogyninae (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae. Museo regionale di scienze naturali Torino, Monografie 34: 1-387.

Pagliano G. 2004. Descrizione di due nuove specie di Apterogyna Latreille, 1809 della Penisola Arabica (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae). Il Naturalista Valtellinese – Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Morbegno, 15: 61-70.

Pagliano G. 2008. Order Hymenoptera, Family Bradynobaenidae. Pp. 393–402. In: Harten A. Van (ed.): Arthropod Fauna of United Arab Emirates. Volume 1. Multiply Marketing Consultancy Services, Abu Dhabi, 754 pp.

Pagliano G. 2011 New species and subspecies of Apterogyninae (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae) from the Arabian Peninsula. Naturalista Valtellinese, Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Morbegno 22: 71–89.

Pagliano G. & Romano M. 2012.Three new species of African Apterogyninae from Kenya, Namibia and Senegal (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae). Naturalista Valtellinese, Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Morbegno 23: 15–41.

Pagliano, G. & Romano, M. 2017. World list of all known species of Bradynobaenidae (Hymenoptera). Il Naturalista Valtellinese 28: 15–46.

Soliman AM, Gadallah NS, Al Dhafer HM. 2018. An illustrated key to the Saudi Arabian species of the genus Macroocula Panfilov, 1954, with the description of a new species and the previously unknown female of M. andreai Pagliano (Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae). ZooKeys 742: 35–56. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.742.22854

Soliman, A. 2020. Further additions to the apterogynine fauna of the genera Gynecaptera Skorikov, 1935 and Macroocula Panfilov, 1954 in Saudi Arabia: new species and a new sex association (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae). Zootaxa 4830(2), 247–272. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4830.2.2

Credits

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

Photographs © Ahmed M. Soliman (King Saud University), or

Photographs © Guido Pagliano (Universita degli Studi di Torino).


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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