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Stilbula Spinola

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

Stilbula Spinola, 1811: 150. Type species: Ichneumon cyniformis Rossi, by monotypy.

Eltolada Cameron, 1909: 230. Type species: Eltolada trimaculata Cameron. Subsequently designated
by Gahan and Fagan, 1923: 50. Synonymy by Hedqvist, 1978: 245.

 

Stilbula bekiliensis bekiliensis (Risbec, 1952)

 

Stilbula bekiliensis minor (Risbec, 1952)

  Stilbula bella (Förster, 1859)
 

Stilbula lissoma Masi, 1917

  Stilbula tonyi Narendran & Girish Kumar, 2004
 

Stilbula viridiceps Ferričre, 1960

  Stilbula yemenica Narendran & Girish Kumar, 2004
Stilbula species (Mozambique)
Stilbula species (Tanzania)

Distribution

Europa Island (Mozambique Channel), Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles, Tanzania, Yemen.

Also Australasian and Oriental regions.

Biology

Hosts: Formicidae, Formicinae: Camponotus aethiops (Latrielle) (Parker, 1925, Parker, 1932, Parker, 1937, ), Camponotus maculatus sanctus Forel (Fahrin, 1922), Camponotus marginatus Latr. (Fahrin, 1912), Camponotus sp. (Parker, 1925), Camponotus herculeanus japonicus Mayr (Clause, 1923, Clause, 1941), Camponotus lingiperda obscuripes Mayr (Clause, 1923, Clause, 1941), Polyrachis (Myrmhopla) dives F. Smith (Wheele, 1924), Polyrachis sp. (Bouček, 1988).

References

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.

Risbec, J. 1952. Contribution l'Čtude des Chalcidoides de Madagascar. Mem. Inst. Sci. Madagascar (E) 2: 1-449.

Credits

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

 

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