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Chyphotes dubius Blake

 

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Thynnoidea; Family: Chyphotidae; Subfamily: Chyphotinae; Genus: Chyphotes)

Chyphotes dubius Mickel, 1967.

Classification

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

Distribution

Mexico, USA.

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.

References

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

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.

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

Credits

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


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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