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Diapriidae

Diapriid wasps of the Afrotropical region

Classification

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

Ambositrinae
Belytinae
Diapriinae

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Endoparasitoids of mostly Diptera, and rarely Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.

References

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

Ghesquire J. 1934. Un Diapriide (Hym. Proct.) nouveau du Congo belge et clef des espèces éthiopiennes. Bulletin du Musee Royal d’histoire naturelle de Belgique 10 (23): 3 pp.

Ghesquire J. 1941. Contribution à l'etude des Hyménoptères du Congo belge. VII. Nouveaux Proctotrupoidea Diapriidae. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 34 (3-4): 353-362.

Huggert L. 1977. Descriptions and redescriptions of species of the genus Trichopria Ashm., 1893 from Malagasy and the Ethiopian region (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea: Diapriidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 8: 205-217.

Huggert L. 1979. Descriptions and redescriptions based on a study of Kieffer’s Trichopria-types from the Seychelles Islands (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea: Diapriidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 10 (1): 13-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631279X00367
Huggert L. 1982. Descriptions and redescriptions of Trichopria species from Africa and the Oriental and Australian regions (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea: Diapriidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 13: 109-122.
Huggert L. & Masner L. 1983. A review of myrmecophilic-symphilic diapriid wasps in the Holarctic realm, with descriptions of new taxa and a key to genera (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea: Diapriidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 20: 63-89.

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. Serphiden und Cynipiden von Madagaskar. In: Voeltzkow A., Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Mitteln der Hermann und Elise Heckmann Wentzel-Stiftung ausgeführt von Professor Dr. Alfred Voeltzkow. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse 2 (5): 529-534.

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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1912.tb00089.x
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.24317Kieffer JJ. 1913. Deux nouveaux Diapriides d'Afrique. Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agr. 7: 91-92.
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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. 1969. Two new genera of Diapriinae (Diapriidae, Hymenoptera) with transantarctic relationships. Psyche 76: 311-325.

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Nixon G.E.J. 1930. The Ethiopian Representatives of the Genus Galesus (Proctotrupoidea) with
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Nixon G.E.J. 1940. A new African diapriid (Hym., Proctotrupoidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 31 (1): 59-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007485300004806

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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

Wharton, R. A., Trostle, M. K., Messing, R. H., Copeland, R. S., Kimani-Njogu, S. W., Lux, S., Overholt, W. A., Mohamed, S., Sivinski, J. 2000. Parasitoids of medfly, Ceratitis capitata, and related tephritids in Kenyan coffee: a predominantly koinobiont assemblage. Bulletin of Entomological Research 90: 517-526

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Yoder M.J. & Wharton R.A. 2002. Nomenclature of African Psilini (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) and status of Coptera robustior, a parasitoid of Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae). The Canadian Entomologist 134 (5): 561-576. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/Ent134561-5

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