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Spilomicrus Westwood

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Diaprioidea; Family: Diapriidae; Subfamily: Diapriinae)

Spilomicrus Westwood, 1832: 129. Type species: Spilomicrus stigmaticalis Westwood, 1832.

Antarctopria Brues in Tillyard, 1920. Synonymy by Notton (2014).

Bothriopria Kieffer, 1905. Type species: Bothriopria saussurei Kieffer, 1905. Synonymy by Notton (2004).

Eriopria Kieffer, 1910.

Malvina Cameron, 1889. Synonymy by Notton (2014).

Tritopria Kieffer, 1910.

 

Spilomicrus capensis Sundholm, 1970 

 

Spilomicrus capitatus Sundholm, 1970

 

Spilomicrus celisi Risbec, 1958

Spilomicrus myrmecophilus Nixon, 1946

 

Spilomicrus natalensis Sundholm, 1970

  Spilomicrus saussurei (Kieffer, 1905)
  Spilomicrus variabilis (Risbec, 1950)
  Spilomicrus villiersi (Risbec, 1954)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Host record for Spilomicrus myrmecophilus: Solenopsis mameti Donisthorpe, 1946 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

References

Förster. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studien. II. Heft. Chalcidae und Proctotrupii. Ernst ter Meer, Aachen. 152 pp.

Johnson, N.F. 1992. Catalog of world Proctotrupoidea excluding Platygastridae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1-825. doi:10.5281/zenodo.23657

Kieffer J.-J. 1905. Description de nouveaux Proctotrypides exotiques. Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles 29: 95-142.
Kieffer J.-J. 1905. Ueber neue myrmekophile Hymenopteren. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 50 (1905): 1-10.

Kieffer JJ. 1910. Serphidae, Cynipidae, Chalcididae, Evaniidae und Stephanidae aus Aequatorialafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 3: 91-119. doi:10.5281/zenodo.24312

Kieffer JJ. 1910. Fam. Belytidae. Genera Insectorum. No. 107. 47 pp.

Kieffer JJ. 1912. Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2. series, Zoology, 15 (1): 45-80, pls 2, 3.
Kieffer JJ. 1912. Hymenoptera Fam. Diapriidae. In: Wytsman P. (ed.), Genera Insectorum 124: 75 pp.

Kieffer JJ. 1913. Description de nouveaux microhymenopteres. Brotéria 11: 169-198. doi:10.5281/zenodo.24317

Madl M. 2015. A catalogue of the families Ceraphronidae, Megaspilidae (Ceraphronoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea) and Proctotrupidae (Proctotrupoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitraege 47(1): 621–652.

Masner, L. 1993. Superfamily Proctotrupoidea (pp. 537-557). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Nixon GEJ. 1946. LXXV. A new myrmecophilous diapriid (Hymenoptera. Serphoidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13: 107, 787-789. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222934608654600

Notton DG. 2014. A catalogue of types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London. European Journal of Taxonomy 75: 1-123.

Notton DG. 2004. A catalogue of types of the smaller taxa of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with notes on the history of the insect collection of L.A.G. Bosc d’Antic. Zoosystema 29 (3): 457-470.

Özdikmen H. 2010. New names for some preoccupied specific epithets in the superfamily Diaprioidea (Hymenoptera). Munis Entomology & Zoology 5(2): 745-752.

Risbec J. 1950. Contribution a l'étude des Proctotrupidae (Serphiidae). Proctotrupidès de la
Section technique d'Agriculture tropicale (A.O.F.) et Proctotrupidès du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Afrique et Colonies françaises). Traveaux du Laboratoire d'Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques, Station expérimentale de M'Bambey (Senegal) et Section Technique d'Agriculture Tropicale du Ministère de la France d'Outre-Mer (Gouvernement Générale de l'Afrique Occidentale Française): 509-639.

Risbec J. 1954. Chalcidoides et Proctotrupoides de l’Afrique occidentale française (3. Supplément). Bulletin de l'Institut Française de l’Afrique Noire 16 (2): 524-552.

Risbec J. 1958. Contributions a la connaissance des Hymenopteres Chalcido!des et Proctotrupoldes de rAfrique Noire. Ann. Mus. Congo BeIge Tervuren, in-8°, Zool. 64: 1-139.

Sundholm, A. 1970. Hymenoptera. Proctotrupidae. In: Hanstrom, B, Brink, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds.) South African Animal Life. Lund: Berlingska Boktryckeriet 14: 306-401.

Tymochko LI, Cuaranhua C, Gumovsky, AV. 2021. Habitat distribution of diapriid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Diaprioidea) in eastern Mozambique. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-021-00529-0

Yoder, M. 2021. The Diapriidae. http://www.diapriid.org/projects/4/public/site/diapriid/home

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