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Neanastatus Girault

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

Neanastatus Girault 1913

Classification

 

Neanastatus africanus Ferrière, 1938

 

Neanastatus gracilipes Risbec, 1952

 

Neanastatus maiwalei Ferrière, 1938

 

Neanastatus obscuratus Ferrière, 1938

 

Neanastatus occidentalis Ferrière, 1938

 

Neanastatus robustus Ferrière, 1938

Neanastatus rufatus Ferrière, 1938

 

Neanastatus tenuis Ferrière, 1938

 

Neanastatus turneri Ferrière, 1938

Distribution Old World.
Biology Parasitoids or hyper parasitoids (through Platygastridae) of Cecidomyiidae larvae (Diptera). Neanastatus rufatus has been reared from Scyrotis (Cecidosidae) galls on Rhus (Anacardiaceae).

References

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

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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