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Dendrocerus wollastoni (Dodd)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ceraphronoidea; Family: Megaspilidae; Subfamily: Megaspilinae; Genus: Dendrocerus)

Conostigmus wollastoni Dodd, 1920. Holotype in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Wollaston, St. Helena.

Classification

Distribution

Reunion, St. Helena.

Biology

Hosts: Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) (Dessart 1984); Rodolia chermesina (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) on Reunion Island (Delvare 2013, unpublished data) (Muru et al. 2017).

References

Dessart P. 1984. Decouverte du male de Dendrocerus wollastoni (Dodd, 1920) (Hymenoptera Ceraphronoidea Megaspilidae). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 120 (7-8): 179-181.

Dodd, A. P. 1920. VIII. Notes on the Exotic Proctotrupoidea in the British and Oxford University Museums. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1920 No. Pts. 3, 4: 321-332.

Madl M. 2015. A catalogue of the families Ceraphronidae, Megaspilidae (Ceraphronoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea) and Proctotrupidae (Proctotrupoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitraege 47(1): 621–652.

Masner, L. 1965. The types of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera) in the British Museum (Natural History) and in the Hope Department of Entomology, Oxford. Bulletin of the British Museum (natural History) Entomology Supplement, 1, 1–154. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23697

Muru, D., Madl, M., Jacquot, M. & Deguine, J.-P. 2017. A literature-based review of Hymenoptera Parasitica and Chrysidoidea from Reunion Island. ZooKeys, 652: 55-128.

Credits

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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