Distribution
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Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Gambia,
Guinea, Ivory Coast,
Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria,
Săo Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Uganda.
Also Neotropical and Nearctic regions. |
Biology
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Ectoparasitoids on ant
larvae of Ponerinae and Ectatomminae (Heraty, 2002; Lachaud & P
erez-Lachaud, 2012; Murray et al., 2013; Murray, 2014,Murray & Heraty,
2016).
Hosts:
Formicidae: Ectatomminae: Ectatomma
ruidum (Roger) (Vasque, 2012).Formicidae:
Odontomachus bauri Emery; Myrmicinae: Pogonomyrmex badius
Latreille (Wheeler, 1907); Ponerinae: Pachycondyla crassinoda
Latreille (Myers, 1931); Ponerinae: Gnamptogenys regularis Mayr
(Perez, 2006), Gnamptogenys striatula Mayr (Perez, 2006),
Gnamptogenys sulcata (Fr. Smith) (Perez, 2006), Pachycondyla
stigma (F.) (Perez, 2006), Odontomachus haematodus insularis
pallens Wheeler (Clause, 1941). |
References
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Heraty, J.M. 2002. A revision of the genera of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera:
Chalcidoidea) of the World. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society
68: 1-359.
Heraty, J.M. 2017.
Catalog of World Eucharitidae, 2017. Electronic publication:
https://hymenoptera.ucr.edu/EucharitidaeCatalog2017.pdf
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
Masi, L. 1917. Chalcididae of the Seychelles
Islands. Novitates Zoologica 24: 121-230.
Murray, E.A. and Heraty, J.M. 2016. Invading
Africa: a novel transoceanic dispersal by a New World and parasitoid. Journal
of Biogeography 43: 1750-1761.
Risbec, J. 1952. Contribution l'Čtude des
Chalcidoides de Madagascar. Mem. Inst. Sci. Madagascar (E) 2: 1-449. |
