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Cirrospilus Westwood

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

Cirrospilus Westwood, 1832.

 

Cirrospilus species

 

Cirrospilus alternatus Bouček, 1977 (Sao Tomé & Principe)

Cirrospilus ambiguus Hansson & LaSalle, 1996 (India, Malaysia, South Africa, Taiwan, Tanzania)

Cirrospilus cinctiventris Ferrière, 1936 (Kenya, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Tanzania)

Cirrospilus cosmopterygi (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal)

Cirrospilus crowei Kerrich, 1969 (Kenya, Réunion)

Cirrospilus dodoneae (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar)

Cirrospilus longifasciatus Ferrière, 1936 (Tanzania)

Cirrospilus polygoniae Risbec, 1951 (Senegal)

Cirrospilus tineivora Risbec, 1951 (Senegal)

Cirrospilus variegatus (Masi, 1907) (Afrotropical: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda; worldwide except Nearctic)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Mainly parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of leafminers, or of other small sheltered larvae or pupae. Some species are egg parasitoids (Boucek, 1988).

References

Boucek, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. pp. 832pp. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd; Aberystwyth, Wales.

Credits

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


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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