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Heydenia Förster

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

Heydenia Förster, 1856. Type species: Heydenia pretiosa Förster, 1856.

 

Heydenia burgeoni (Risbec, 1955)

 

Heydenia madagascariensis (Hedqvist, 1961)

 

Heydenia mateui (Hedqvist, 1967)

 

Heydenia natalensis (Westwood, 1874)

 

Heydenia ornata (Risbec, 1952)

 

Heydenia seyrigi (Risbec, 1952)

Heydenia species

Distribution

Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, South Africa.

Also Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Hosts: Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Curculioninae, Lamiinae, Scytinae, Scolytidae.

References

Förster, A. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studien. 2. Chalcidiae und Proctotrupii. 152pp. Aachen.

Gibson, G.A.P. 2003, Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 16: 1-339.

Hedqvist, K.J. 1967. Notes on some chalcid flies reared from Buprestidae and Bostrychidae, injurious to Acacia roddiana Savi in Algeria (Sahara) and North Tchad. Eos. Revista Espańola di Entomologia. Madrid. 43(1/2):135-146.

Hedqvist, K.J. 1961. Notes on Cleonymidae (Hym. Chalcidoidea). I. Entomologisk Tidskrift. 82(1-2):91-110.

Risbec, J. 1952. Contribution á l'étude des chalcidoides de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar (E). 2:1-449

Risbec, J. 1955. Chalcidoďdes et proctotrupoďdes africaines. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire. 17:533-580.

Westwood, J.O. 1874. Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis; or, illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects,. for the most part contained in the collection presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. F.W. Hope. xxiv+205pp, 40 plates. Oxford.

Credits

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

 

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