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Philolema arachnovora (Hesse)

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

Eurytoma arachnovora Hesse, 1942. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Klipheuwel - Durbanville road, Cape Town, South Africa.


Part of the type series including the Holotype male (head missing) and Allotype female (each identified by x and gender symbol).

 

Holotype male (SAM-HYM-P003070)


Paratype female (SAM-HYM-P003070) (designated as Allotype by Hesse, 1942)

 

Paratype male (from primary type series SAM-HYM-P003070)

 

Paratype female (from primary type series SAM-HYM-P003070)


Paratype female (SAM-HYM-P003072)


Distribution

South Africa.

Also Cuba, Jamaica, Philippines.

Biology

Egg parasitoid of spiders (Theridiidae): Latrodectus geometricus; Latrodectus indistinctus; Latrodectus mactans.

References

Burks, B.D. 1971. A synopsis of the genera of the family Eurytomidae (Hym., Chalcidoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 97(1): 1-89.

De Santis, L. 1989. Catalogo de los Himenopteros Calcidoides (Hymenoptera) al sur de los Estados Unidos, segundo suplemento. Catalogue of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) of America south of the United States, second supplement. Acta Entomologica Chilena 15: 9-90.

De Santis, L. 1979. Catálogo de los himénopteros calcidoideos de América al sur de los Estados Unidos. Publicación Especial Comisión de Investigaciones Cientificas Provincia de Buenos Airies. 488pp.

Gates, M. & Delvare, G. 2008. A new species of Eurytoma (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) attacking Quadrastichus spp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) galling Erythrina spp. (Fabaceae), with a summary of African Eurytoma biology and species checklist. Zootaxa 175: 1–24.

Herting, B. 1971. Arachnida to Heteroptera. A catalogue of parasites and predators of terrestrial arthropods. Section A. Host or Prey/Enemy. 1: v+129pp. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Slough, England

Hesse, A.J. 1942. The insect-food and Hymenopterous parasites of the South African poisonous 'button spider' Latrodectus indistinctus Camb. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 5: 45-63.

Lotfalizadeh, H., Delvare, G., & Rasplus, J.-Y. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of Eurytominae (Chalcidoidea: Eurytomidae) based on morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 151, 441–510.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1980. Annotated records of economically important Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from South Africa. I. Phytophylactica 12: 159-163.

Credits

Photographs and 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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