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Chalcedectus Walker

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

Chalcedectus Walker, 1852. Type species: Chalcedectus maculicornis Walker, 1852.

Amotura Cameron, 1884. Type species: Amotura annulicornis Cameron, 1884.

Distribution

Central African Republic, South Africa.

Also in Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical regions.

Biology

Parasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae (Bostrichidae, Buprestidae and Cerambycidae).

Parasitoid of Cerambycidae larva boring in Rosaceae (Sharifi & Javadi, 1971).

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies of the Superfamily: Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 1(4):i-xi,225-551,39pls.
Bouček, Z. 1958. On Chalcedectus sinaiticus (Masi) from the Near East, and Ch. guaraniticus (Strand), from Paraguay and new synonymy (Hym. Chalcidoidea). Sborník Entomologického Oddeleni Národního Musea v Praze. 33:483-486.
Bouček, Z. 1958. Trichomalus lonchaeae, n.sp. (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae), a parasite of Lonchaeidae (Diptera) in Germany. Sborník Entomologického Oddeleni Národního Musea v Praze. 33:37-40, 1 fig.
Burks, B.D. 1958. Superfamily: Chalcidoidea. (In: Krombein, K.V. (Editor). Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic Catalogue. 1st supplement.) Agriculture Monographs. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2(first supplement):62-84.
Dalla Torre, K.W. von. 1898. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. V. Chalcididae et. Proctotrupidae. 598pp. Lepzig
De Santis, L. 1980. Catalogo de los Himenopteros Brasilenos de la serie Parasitica incluyendo Bethyloidea. Editora da Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba. 395pp.

Gibson, G.A.P. 2003, Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 16: 1-339.
Schmiedeknecht, O. 1909. Hymenoptera fam. Chalcididae. Genera Insectorum. 97:1-550. Brussels Ed: Wytsman, P.
Sharifi, S. and Javadi, I.. 1971. Control of Rosaceae branch borer in Iran. Journal of Economic Entomology. 64(2):484-486.
Steffan, J.R. 1968. Observations sur Chalcedectus sinaiticus (Ms.) et descriptions de C. balachowskyi sp.n. (Hym. Chalcedectidae) et d'Oopristus safavii gen.n., sp.n. (Hym. Torymidae), deux parasites d'importance économique en Iran. Entomophaga. 13(3):209-216.
Walker, F. 1852. Notes on Chalcidites, and descriptions of various new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2). 10:45-48.

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