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Classification

Merostenus Walker

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

Merostenus Walker, 1837 354–355. Type species: Merostenus phedyma Walker (= Eupelmus excavatus Dalman, 1820), by monotypy.
Urocryptus Westwood, 1839: 72. Type species: Eupelmus excavatus Dalman, 1820: 382–383, by monotypy and original designation. Preoccupied by Urocryptus Temminck, 1838: 31, discovered by Dalla Torre, 1897: 85. Synonymy by Ruschka, 1921: 309.
Eupelminus Dalla Torre, 1897: 85. Replacement name for Urocryptus Westwood. Synonymy by Ruschka, 1921: 309.
Finlayia Girault, 1934: 1. Type species: Finlayia puella Girault, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Finlayia Giles, 1904: 365, discovered by Bouček, 1988: 558. Synonymy by Gibson, 2017.
Reikosiella
Yoshimoto 1969. Type species: Riekosiella melina Yoshimoto by monotypy and original designation. Synonymy by Gibson, 2017.
Hirticauda Bouček, 1988: 558. Type species: Cerambycobius pax Girault, by original designation. Synonymy under Reikosiella by Gibson 1995: 259. Synonymy by Gibson, 2017
Reikosiella (Capreocauda) Gibson, 1995: 262. Type species: Idoleupelmus tsaratananae Risbec, by monotypy and original designation. Synonymy by Gibson, 2017
Reikosiella (Incohata) Gibson, 1995: 263. Type species: Reikosiella (Incohata) guttata Gibson, by monotypy and original designation. Synonymy by Gibson, 2017
Reikosiella (Reikosiella) Gibson, 1995: 265.
Reikosiella (Hirticauda) Gibson, 1995: 263.

 

Merostenus (Capreocauda) parvulus (Risbec, 1952)

 

Merostenus (Capreocauda) tsaratananae (Risbec, 1952)

 

Merostenus (Merostenus) bekiliensis (Risbec, 1952)

 

Merostenus (Merostenus) bekilyi (Risbec, 1952)

Merostenus (Merostenus) congoensis Gibson, 2017

Merostenus (Merostenus) distigma Gibson, 2017

Merostenus (Merostenus) longistylus Gibson, 2017

Merostenus (Merostenus) micropterus Gibson, 2017

Merostenus (Merostenus) platyscapus Gibson, 2017

Merostenus (Merostenus) reticulatus Gibson, 2017

Merostenus (Merostenus) speculum Gibson, 2017

Distribution

Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania.

Also in Australasian, Oriental, Nearctic and Neotropical regions.

Biology

There are reared records from larvae or pupae of Alucitidae, Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) and cynipid galls (Hymenoptera) (Gibson, 2017).

References

Gibson, G.A.P. 1995. Parasitic wasps of the subfamily Eupelminae: classification and revision of world genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 5: 421 pp.

Gibson G.A.P. 2017. Synonymy of Reikosiella Yoshimoto under Merostenus Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae), with a checklist of world species and a revision of those species with brachypterous females. Zootaxa 4255: 1–65. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4255.1.1.

Risbec, J. 1952. Contribution à l'étude des Chalcidoïdes de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institute Scientifique de Madagascar, Série E 2: 1–449.

Credits

Photographs © Lisa Bartels (AAFC, Ottawa). Map illustration © 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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