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Astichus Förster

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

Astichus Förster, 1856

Classification

Astichus gracilis Neser, 2012 (South Africa)

Astichus micans Neser, 2012 (South Africa)

Astichus naiadis Neser, 2012 (South Africa)

Astichus silvani Neser, 2012 (South Africa)

Distribution Afrotropical, Indo-Australasian, Nearctic & Palaearctic regions.
Biology Astichus_micans_pupa_with_ciid_larval_remains

Parasitoids of Ciidae (Coleoptera) tunnelling and living in bracket fungi (Agaricomycetes).

References

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.

Hansson, C. & Straka, J. 2009. The name Euderinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is a junior homonym. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111: 272–273.

Neser, O.C. 2012. The first record of Astichus Förster (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Entiinae), parasitoids of Ciidae (Coleoptera) in bracket fungi, from the Afrotropical region and the description of four new species from South Africa. Zootaxa 3183: 49-64.

Credits

Photographs © Janine Kelly (Biosystematics Division, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Pretoria).


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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