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Coccygidium Saussure

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Agathidinae)

Coccygidium Saussure, 1892. Type species: Coccygidium luteum (Brullé, 1846).

  Coccygidium iridipenne (Cameron,1904)
Coccygidium luteum (Brullé, 1846)
  Coccygidium nigriceps (Cameron,1905)
  Coccygidium pallidum (Kriechbaumer,1894)
  Coccygidium snyderi (Ashmead,1900)
  Coccygidium sudanense (Gahan,1915)

Distribution

Afrotropical, Neotropical, Oceanic, Oriental, Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Parasitoids of Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Nolidae, Pyralidae, Tortricidae.

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Classification of the Ichneumon flies, or the superfamily Ichneumonoidea. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 23(1206):1-220.
Brues, C.T. 1926. Studies on Ethiopian Braconidae with a catalogue of the African species. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 61:206-436.
Brullé, M.A. 1846. Tome Quatrième. Des Hyménoptères. Les Ichneumonides. In: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau A. "Histoire Naturelles des Insectes." Paris. 680 pp. pp. 56-521.

Cameron, P. 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from Dunbrody, Cape Colony. Records of the Albany Museum. 1:125-160.
Cameron, P. 1907. No.IV.- Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. (2)12:69-86.
Cameron, P. 1911
. On the parasitic Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse, Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 2:173-217.
Cameron, P. 1912. On the Hymenoptera from Belgian Congo in the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 56:357-401.
Granger, C. 1949
. Braconides de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. (A)2:1-428.

Kohl, F.F. 1906. Hymenopteren Südarabiens. 133 pp. Ichneumonidae & Braconidae in pp.118-127.
Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae a medico nautico Dr. Joh. Brauns in itinere secundo ad oras Africae lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 39:297-318.
Shenefelt, R.D. 1970. Braconidae 3. Agathidinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus (nova editio). pars 6. pp.307-428.

van Achterberg, Cornelis. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Braconidae. The subfamily Agathidinae from the United Arab Emirates, with a review of the fauna of the Arabian Peninsula. Arthropod fauna of the United Arab Emirates. 4:286-352.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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