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Pristaulacus Kieffer

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Evanioidea; Family: Aulacidae)

Pristaulacus Kieffer, 1900. Type species: Pristaulacus chlapowskii Kieffer, 1900 (designated by Kieffer, 1903)

Pristaulacus Benoit, 1984. Type species: Pristaulacus rex Benoit, 1984. (synonymy by Turrisi et al., 2010)

Pristaulacus africanus Brues, 1924

Pristaulacus irenae (Madl, 1990)

Pristaulacus pilatoi Turrisi, 2006

 

Pristaulacus rex (Benoit, 1984)

Pristaulacus smithi  Turrisi, 2006

Pristaulacus thoracicus Westwood, 1841

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1984. Aulacidae, famille nouvelle pour la faune de l'Afrique tropicale (Hymenoptera). Revue de Zoologie Africaine 98: 799-803.

Brues, C.T. 1924. 1. Some South African parasitic Hymenoptera of the families Evaniidae, Braconidae, Alysiidae and Plumariidae, in the South African Museum with a catalogue of known species. Annals of the South African Museum 19: 1-150.

Kieffer, J.J. 1900. Etude sur les Evaniides. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (1899) 68: 813-820.

Madl, M. 1990. Eine neue Pristaulacus - Art Benoit aus Kenya (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea, Aulacidae). Mitteilungen der Munchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 80: 85-88.

Smith, D.R. 2001. World catalog of the family Aulacidae (Hymenoptera). Contributions on Entomology International 4: 261–319.

Turrisi G.F. 2006. Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristaulacus Kieffer 1900 (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 37: 27-38.

Turrisi, G.F., Jennings, J.T. & Vilhelmsen, L. 2009. Phylogeny and generic concepts of the parasitoid wasp family Aulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea). Invertebrate Systematics 23: 27–59.

Westwood, J.O. 1841. [Descriptions in entomological society proceedings]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1841: 535-539.

Westwood, J.O. 1844. XXXVIII. On Evania and some allied Genera of Hymenopterous Insects. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3: 237-278, plates XIV-XV.

Credits

Photographs © Denis Brothers (University of Kwazulu-Natal), or © Giuseppe Fabrizio Turrisi (University of Catania) and Natural History Museum London or © Nadene Smith (Iziko Museums of Cape Town).


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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