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Bacuma Cameron

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

Bacuma Cameron, 1906. Type species: Bacuma maculiventris Cameron, 1906.

Identification keys

Bacuma bicolor (Szépligeti, 1914)

Bacuma darfurensis Quicke & Butcher, 2017

Bacuma fumipennis Cameron, 1906

Bacuma granulata (Szépligeti, 1901)

Bacuma kayserae Quicke & Butcher, 2017

Bacuma maculipennis (Szépligeti, 1914)

Bacuma maculiventris Cameron, 1906

Bacuma madiensis Quicke & Butcher, 2017

Bacuma rufa Cameron, 1911

Bacuma whitei (Cameron, 1905)

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Palaearctic region: Egypt, Morocco.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Cameron, P. 1905. On some new genera and species of Hymenoptera from Cape Colony and Transvaal. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 15: 195-257.
Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-186.

Cameron, P. 1911. On the parasitic Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse, Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2: 173-217.

Quicke, D.L.J. & Koch, F. 1990. Die Braconinae-Typen der beiden bedeutendsten Hymenopteransammlingen der DDR (Hymenoptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 37: 213-227.

Quicke DLJ, Guy TJ, van Noort S, Broad GR & Butcher BA. 2017. New species of Bacuma Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae) from Kenya and West Darfur with a partial key to species. Zootaxa 4263: 43–71. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.2
Szépligeti, G. 1901. Tropischen Cenocoeliden und Braconiden aus der Sammlung des Ungarischen National-Museums. Természetrajzi Füzetek 24: 353-402.
Szépligeti, G. 1914. Afrikanische Braconiden des Königl. Zoologischen Museums in Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 7: 153-230.

Credits

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


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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