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Buresium Bouček

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

Buresium Bouček, 1969. Type species: Buresium rufum Boucek, 1969

Key to species

Buresium naso
  Buresium rufum
  Buresium tenue
  Buresium watshami
Buresium species
Buresium species

Distribution

Old World: Afrotropical region: Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Palaearctic region: Azerbaidshan, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Tadzhikistan.

Oriental region: India, Pakistan, Thailand.

Biology

Parasitoids of stem-boring beetle larvae Mordellistena species (Mordellidae) in stems of Cannabis sativa.

References

Bouček, Z. 1969. On some new or otherwise interesting Torymidae, Ormyridae, Eurytomidae and Pteromalidae (Hym.) mainly from the Mediterranean subregion. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri', Portici 27: 27-54.

Bouček, Z. 1983. On Buresium, Masneroma (n. gen.) and some other Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica 14: 186-194. doi:10.1163/187631283X00065

Burks, B.D. 1958. A new Bruchophagus from liliaceous plant with a host plant list for the genus (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 273-277.

Farooqi, S.I. and Subba Rao, B.R. 1986. Family Eurytomidae. (In: Subba Rao, B.R.; Hayat, M. (Eds) - The Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of India and the adjacent countries.) Oriental Insects 20: 247-258.
Gates, M.W. 2008. Species revision and generic systematics of World Rileyinae (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 127: 1-332.

Zerova, M.D. 1978. Hymenoptera II. Chalcidoidea 8. Eurytomidae. Opred. Nasek. Evrop. Chasti SSSR. 328-358.

Credits

Photographs © Mike Gates (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) or © 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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