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Signiphora merceti Malenotti

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

Signiphora merceti Malenotti, 1916. Holotype in MNCN. Type locality: Santońa.

 

Distribution

Benin, Kenya, South Africa. Also Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Primary parasitoid of armoured scales (Diaspididae), most commonly species of Hemiberlesia.

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

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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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