 |
Signiphora flavella Girault
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Chalcidoidea; Family:
Signiphoridae; Genus:
Signiphora)
Signiphora flavella Girault, 1913. Lectotype in USNM,
Washington. Type locality: Florida, Miami.
Signiphora basilica Girault, 1913. Synonymy by Woolley & Dal Molin,
2017.
Signiphora euclidi Girault, 1935.Synonymy by Woolley & Dal Molin,
2017.
Signiphora flava Girault, 1913.Synonymy by Woolley & Dal Molin,
2017.
Signiphora caridei Brčthes, 1914.Synonymy by Woolley & Dal Molin,
2017.
Signiphora thoreauini Girault, 1916.Synonymy by Woolley & Dal
Molin, 2017.
Thysanus louisianae Dozier, 1933.Synonymy by Woolley & Dal Molin,
2017. |
|
Distribution |
South Africa.
A cosmopolitan species. |
|
Biology |
Primary
parasitoid of armoured scales (Diaspididae) and possibly also soft
scales. |
|
References |
Brčthes, J. 1914. I.-Les
Ennemis de la "Diaspis Pentagona" dans La Republique Argentine.
Nunquam Otiosus 1–16.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23608
Dozier, H.L. 1933.
Miscellaneous notes and descriptions of chalcidoid parasites
(Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
35: 85–100.
Girault,
A.A. 1913. A Systematic Monograph of the Chalcidoid Hymenoptera of
the subfamily Signiphorinae. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 45:
189–233.
https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.1977.189
Girault, A.A. 1916. New Encyrtidae from North America. Psyche 23:
41–50.
https://doi.org/10.1155/1916/76065
Girault, A.A. 1935. Microhymenoptera Australiensis Nova. Mostly
Chalcididae. Privately printed, Wright & Baker, Sydney, pp. 2–4.
Woolley, J.B. 1997. Signiphoridae. In: Gibson,
G.A.P., Huber, J.T. & Woolley, J.B. (Eds.), Annotated Keys to the Genera
of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, pp.
693–699.
Woolley J.B., Dal Molin, A. 2017.
Taxonomic revision of the flavopalliata species group of
Signiphora (Hymenoptera: Signiphoridae). Zootaxa 4315:
1-150.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4315.1.1 |
Credits
|
Photographs © Ana Dal Molin (Texas A&M
University).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
|
|
