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Aphaereta Förster

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

Aphaereta Förster,1862. Type species: Alysia cephalotes (Haliday,1833).

Aphaereta basirufa Granger,1949

Aphaereta elongata Peris-Felipo, 2015

Aphaereta hararensis Peris-Felipo, 2015

Aphaereta mosselensis Peris-Felipo, 2015

Aphaereta sarcophagensis Shenefelt,1974

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Solitary koinobiont endoparasitoids of Cyclorrhapha larvae (Diptera).

Species richness

About 40 described species in the world.

References

Peris-Felipo FJ. 2015. Review of the genus Aphaereta Förster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) from the Afrotropical region, with description of three new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 42: 1–20. doi: 10.3897/JHR.42.9135

Credits

Photographs © Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo (Bleichestrasse 15, CH–4058 Basel, Switzerland).

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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