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Cratocnema Szépligeti

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

Cratocnema Szépligeti, 1914. Type species : Exothecus magnificus Ashmead, 1889.

 

Cratocnema albopilosum (Szépligeti, 1913)

 

Cratocnema bicolor Szépligeti, 1914

 

Cratocnema cephalotum Szépligeti, 1914

 

Cratocnema juxtacasum Papp, 2000

 

Cratocnema leve Granger, 1949

 

Cratocnema luteum (Szépligeti, 1913)

 

Cratocnema maculiceps Szépligeti, 1914

 

Cratocnema maculiventre Szépligeti, 1914

 

Cratocnema nigriventre Szépligeti, 1914

 

Cratocnema pallidipes Szépligeti, 1914

 

Cratocnema politum Szépligeti, 1914

 

Cratocnema postfurcale (Brues, 1924)

 

Cratocnema testaceum Szépligeti, 1914

 

Cratocnema tricolor Granger, 1949

 

Cratocnema variicolor Granger, 1949

Cratocnema species

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Baltazar, C.R. 1962. The genera of parasitic Hymenoptera in the Philippines, Part 1. Pacific Insects. 4(4):737-771.  
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.  
Brues, C.T. 1924. Some South African parasitic Hymenoptera of the families Evaniidae, Braconidae, Alysiidae, and Plumariidae in the South African Museum with a catalogue of the known species. Annals of the South African Museum. 19:1-150.  
Granger, C. 1949. Braconides de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. (A)2:1-428.  
Papp, J. 2000. Cratocnema juxtacasum sp.n. from Malgasy (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 61:149-156.  
Quicke, D.L.J. 1985. Further reclassification of Afrotropical and Indo-Australian Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Oriental Insects. 18:339-353.
Quicke, D.L.J. 1987. The Old World genera of braconine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Journal of Natural History. 21:43-157.  
Quicke, D.L.J. 1988. Inter-generic variation in the male genitalia of the Braconinae (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Zoologica Scripta. 17:399-409.
Quicke, D.L.J. 1991. Tergal and inter-tergal metasomal glands of male Braconine wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Zoologica Scripta. 19:413-423.  
Quicke, D.L.J. 1991. The non-European Braconinae types of Szépligeti housed in Budapest (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 83:169-186.

Quicke, D.L.J.; Wharton, R.A. and Sittertz Bhatkar, H. 1997. Antero-lateral abdominal scent glands of braconine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 6(2): 219-230.  
Shenefelt, R.D. 1978. Braconidae 10. Braconinae, Gnathobraconinae, Mesestoinae, Pseudodicrogeniinae, Telengainae, Ypsistocerinae, plus Braconidae in general, major groups, unplaced genera and species. Hymenopterorum Catalogus (nova editio). Pars 15. pp.1425-1872.  
Szépligeti, G. 1913. Neue afrikanische Braconiden aus der Sammlung der Ungarischen National-Museum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 11:592-608.  
Szépligeti, G. 1914. Afrikanische Braconiden des Königl. Zoologischen Museums in Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 7:153-230.  
Szépligeti, G.V. 1914. Central-Afrikanische Braconidae des Congo-Museums. Revue de Zoologie Africaine. 3:403-420.  

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