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Phaenocarpa Förster

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

Phaenocarpa Förster,1862. Type species: Alysia picinervis (Haliday,1838).

  Phaenocarpa bicolor Granger,1949
  Phaenocarpa citri Fischer,1963
  Phaenocarpa cristata Szépligeti,1915
  Phaenocarpa errabunda Papp,1966
  Phaenocarpa ghesquierei Fischer,1963
  Phaenocarpa kittenbergeri Papp,1966
  Phaenocarpa nigriceps (Kriechbaumer,1894)
  Phaenocarpa pulchricornis Szépligeti,1911
  Phaenocarpa ruficeps (Nees,1812)
  Phaenocarpa testaceipes Cameron,1905
  Phaenocarpa zambiaensis Fischer,1997
Phaenocarpa species

Distribution

Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of cyclorrhaphous Diptera (commonly Anthomyiidae and Scathophagidae, but also from other families) often associated with dung or fungi.

References

Cameron, P. 1905. On some undescribed genera and species of parasitic Hymenoptera from Cape Colony and Transvaal, South Africa. (Hym.) Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie. 5:338-343.
Fischer, M. 1963. Neue Zuchtergebnisse von Braconiden. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Zoologie. 50:195-214.
Fischer, M. 1997. Taxonomische Untersuchungen über Kieferwespen (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) der Alten Welt. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Serie B Botanik und Zoologie. 99B: 97-143.
Granger, C. 1949. Braconides de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. (A)2:1-428.
Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidea a medico nautico Dr. Joh. Brauns in itinere ad oras Africae occidentalis lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 39:43-68.
Nees von Esenbeck, C.G. 1812. Ichneumonides Adsciti, in Genera et Familias Divisi. Magazin Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 6(1812):183-221.
Papp, J. 1966. New Phaenocarpa Foerster species from the Ethiopian Region (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 12:133-144.
Szépligeti, G. 1911. Braconidae der I. Zentral-Afrika-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition. 3:393-418.
Szépligeti, G. 1915. Braconidae. In: 'Ergebnisse der zweiten Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1910-1911 unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg Vol. 1'. Leipzig. Verlag Klinkhart & Biermann. pp.139-154.

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