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Microterys Thompson

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

Microterys Thomson, 1876. Type species:

 

Microterys africa (Girault, 1917) (Uganda) 

Microterys anneckei Prinsloo, 1975 (South Africa) 

Microterys bizanensis Compere, 1939 (Eritrea) 

Microterys capensis Annecke, 1963 (South Africa)

Microterys ceroplastae Prinsloo, 1975 (Kenya) 

Microterys haroldi Prinsloo & Rosen, 1975 (South Africa)

Microterys kenyaensis Compere, 1939 (Kenya, South Africa)

Microterys nanus Prinsloo & Mynhardt, 1981 (South Africa)

Microterys nicholsoni Compere, 1939 (Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe) 

Microterys nietneri (Motschulsky, 1859) (South Africa. Worldwide) 

Microterys species (Tanzania)

Distribution

Eritrea, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of soft scales (Hemiptera: Coccidae), and also Kermesidae, Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae.

References

Annecke, D.P. & Insley, H.P. 1971. Catalogue of Ethiopian Encyrtidae and Aphelinidae. Entomology Memoir of the Department of Agricultural Technical Services of the Republic of South Africa 23: 1-53.

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Heraty, J.M., Burks, R.A., Cruaud, A., Gibson, G.A.P., Liljeblad, J., Munro, J., Rasplus, J.-Y., Delvare, G., Janšta, P., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J., Woolley, J.B., Krogmann, L., Heydon, S., Polaszek, A., Schmidt, S., Darling, D.C., Gates, M.W., Mottern, J., Murray, E., Dal Molin, A., Triapitsyn, S., Baur, H., Pinto, J.D., van Noort, S., George, J. & Yoder, M. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29: 466–542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12006

Iwabuchi K. 2019. Polyembryony in Encyrtid Parasitoids. In: Polyembryonic Insects. Entomology Monographs. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0958-2_2

Japoshvili, G. 2011. Revision of Microterys Thomson (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) of the MNCN including species distributed in Iberian Peninsula. Annales de Societe Entomologique de France 47: 193-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2011.10697711

Noyes, J.S. & Prinsloo, G.L. 1998. A review of the Afrotropical and Malagasy taxa of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) described by J. Risbec (1949-1959). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 34(1): 71-97.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1983. A parasitoid-host index of Afrotropical Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Entomology Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, Republic of South Africa 60: 1-35.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1997. Parasitoids. Encyrtidae. World Crop Pests 7B:78-85

Prinsloo, G.L. & D.P. Annecke. 1979. A key to the genera of Encyrtidae from the Ethiopian region, with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 42: 349-382.

Credits

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Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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