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Idiasta Förster

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

Idiasta Förster,1862. Type species: Alysia maritima Haliday,1838.

  Idiasta chingolaensis Fischer, 2008
  Idiasta curtimembrum Fischer, 2004
  Idiasta hiomae Fischer, 2008
Idiasta iaiaorum Peris-Felipo, 2016
  Idiasta madagascariensis Granger, 1949
  Idiasta magna (Papp, 1966)
  Idiasta postscutellaris Szépligeti, 1908
Idiasta vanreenensis Peris-Felipo, 2016

Distribution

Worldwide. Afrotropical Region: Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

Biology

Parasitoids of Muscidae (Diptera).

References

Fischer, M. 2004. Einige neue Brackwespen (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) und weitere Formen der Kiefer- und Madenwespen (Alysiinae, Opiinae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B Botanik und Zoologie. 105B (2003): 277-318.

Fischer, M. 2008. Über die Gattungen Idiasta Foerster, Aphaereta Foerster und Hylcalosia Fischer (Hyemnoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge. 40/1:703-734.

Granger, C. 1949. Braconides de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar (A)2:1-428.

Papp, J. 1966. New Phaenocarpa Foerster species from the Ethiopian Region (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 12: 133-144.

Peris-Felipo, F.J., Belokobylskij, S.A. 2016. New South African species of the genus Idiasta Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae), with a key to the Afrotropical and Malagasy taxa. Zootaxa 4150 (5): 566–570. http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4150.5.3

Peris-Felipo, F.J., Belokobylskij, S.A. 2016. A new Afrotropical species of the genus Idiasta Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae). Zoosystematica Rossica 25(2): 243–247.

Szépligeti, G. 1908. Hymenoptera: Braconidae & Ichneumonidae. In: Sjostedts Y. "Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen". pp 25-96.

Yu, D.S., Achterberg, van C. & Horstman, K. 2012. Taxapad 2012, World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Database on flash-drive. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. www.taxapad.com

Credits

Photographs © Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo.


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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