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Monacon Waterston

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

Monacon Waterston 1922

Classification
  Monacon aurantiops Bouček, 1980
  Monacon bifidum Delucchi, 1956
 

Monacon brevicorne Delucchi, 1956
  Monacon latispina Bouček, 1980
  Monacon nigrum Delucchi, 1956
  Monacon onkops Bouček, 1980
Monacon species
Distribution Old World tropics (Afrotropical and Indo-Australasian regions)
Biology Parasitoids of ambrosia beetles (Platypodidae).

References

Bouček, Z. 1980. A revision of the genus Monacon Waterston (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Perilampinae), parasites of ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Platypodidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 70: 73-96.

Darling, DC., Roberts, H. 1999. Life history and larval morphology of Monacon (Hymenoptera: Perilampidae), parasitoids of ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Platypodidae) Can. J. Zool. 77: 1768-1782.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)
  Next genus: Perilampus

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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