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Aperilampus Walker

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

Aperilampus Walker, 1871

  Aperilampus brevicornis (Risbec, 1951)
  Aperilampus discolor (Walker, 1862)
 

Aperilampus niayensis (Risbec, 1957)

Aperilampus rabeharisoae Heraty, 2019

  Aperilampus varians Strand, 1911
Aperilampus sp. 1
Aperilampus sp. 2
Aperilampus  sp. 3
Aperilampus  sp. 4

Distribution

Madagascar, Malawi, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Darling, D.C. 1992. The life history and larval morphology of Aperilampus (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) with a discussion of the phylogenetic affinities of the Philomidinae. Systematic Entomology 17: 331-339.

Heraty, J. M., Derafshan, H. A., Ghafouri Moghaddam, M. 2019. Review of the Philomidinae Ruschka (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Perilampidae), with description of three new species.
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77(1): 39-56. https://doi.org/10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-03

Risbec, J. 1951. 1. Les Chalcidoides de l'Afrique occidentale française. Mémoires de l'Institute Français d'Afrique Noire, Ifan-Dakar. 13:7-409.
Strand, E. 1911. Neue exotische Chalcididen der Gattungen Phasgonophora Westw., Heptasmicra Ashm., Anacrytpus Kby., Antrocephalus Kby., Aperilampus Wlk and Chryseida Spin. (Schluss) Fauna Exotica. 1(3):9-10.

Walker, F. 1871. Part 4. Chalcididae, Leucospidae, Agaonidae, Perilampidae, Ormyridae, Encyrtidae. Notes on Chalcidiae. 55-70. London.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or photographs by Yasfir Nadat © Iziko Museums or © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria), or © John Heraty (UC Riverside), or

© Terence Bellingan (Albany Museum, Makhanda).


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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