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Methochinae

Methochine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

Methocha Latrielle, 1804

Distribution

Worldwide, but absent from Australasian region.

Biology

Ectoparasitoids of subterranean tiger beetle larva (Cicindelinae).

Reference

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.

Kimsey, L.S. 1991. Relationships among the tiphiid wasp subfamilies (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 16: 427-438.

Kimsey, LS. 2011. Tiphiidae wasps of Madagascar (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 45–68. doi: 10.3897/JHR.22.1142

Krombein, K.V. 1937. Studies in the Tiphiidae, I: a review of the genera of Myzininae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 30: 27–30.

Krombein K.V. 1938. Studies in the Tiphiidae II. A revision of the Nearctic Myzininae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 64: 227-292.

Krombein, K.V. 1949. Studies in the Tiphiidae. VII. The Madagascan species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 51: 45–73.

Krombein K.V. 1968. Studies in the Tiphiidae. X. Hylomesa, a new genus of Myzininae wasp parasitic on larvae of longicorn beetles (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 124: 1-22.

Credits

Photographs © Lynn Kimsey (Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis).


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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