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Cyanopterus Haliday

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

Bracon (Cyanopterus) Haliday, 1835. Type species: Ichneumon flavator (Fabricius,1793).

Note that Cyanopterus is an ill-defined genus, but all species named from Africa will actually belong to completely unrelated genera such as Serraulax, Archibracon, Sobrinarchibracon, Fraterarchibracon or even Iphiaulax (Donald Quicke pers. comm, 6 August 2014).

  Cyanopterus amorosus (Kohl, 1906)
  Cyanopterus annulicornatus (Shenefelt, 1978)
  Cyanopterus bekilyensis (Granger, 1949)
Cyanopterus bellona (Brues,1924)
  Cyanopterus berlandi (Granger, 1949)
  Cyanopterus bisignatus (Szépligeti, 1905)
  Cyanopterus bucephalus (Brues, 1926)
  Cyanopterus camerunus (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Cyanopterus congoensis (Cameron, 1912)
  Cyanopterus consultus (Szépligeti, 1905)
  Cyanopterus coriaceus (Szépligeti, 1908)
  Cyanopterus crassicornis (Szépligeti, 1915)
  Cyanopterus facialis (Szépligeti, 1915)
  Cyanopterus flagellaris Szépligeti, 1914
  Cyanopterus flaviceps (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Cyanopterus flavoguttatus (Gerstaecker, 1858)
  Cyanopterus fuscipennis Szépligeti, 1915
  Cyanopterus grandidieri (Saussure, 1892)
  Cyanopterus hemixanthus (Szépligeti, 1908)
  Cyanopterus incompositus (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Cyanopterus litura (Brullé, 1846)
  Cyanopterus longicornis (Szépligeti, 1911)
Cyanopterus lugens (Brullé, 1846)
  Cyanopterus minor Szépligeti, 1915
  Cyanopterus nigrifrons (Kriechbaumer, 1894)
  Cyanopterus occidentalis (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Cyanopterus ornaticollis (Cameron, 1905)
Cyanopterus phryganator (Thunberg, 1824)
  Cyanopterus piceus Fahringer, 1935
  Cyanopterus pictipennis (Szépligeti, 1915)
  Cyanopterus rubiginator (Thunberg,1789)
  Cyanopterus rufolineatus (Cameron, 1912)
  Cyanopterus schubotzi (Szépligeti, 1915)
  Cyanopterus seticornis (Szépligeti, 1915)
  Cyanopterus seyrigi (Granger, 1949)
  Cyanopterus spathuliformis (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Cyanopterus speciosus (Szépligeti, 1901)
  Cyanopterus striatus (Szépligeti, 1913)
  Cyanopterus subpunctatus (Granger, 1949)
  Cyanopterus subrugosus (Granger, 1949)
  Cyanopterus sulphureus (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Cyanopterus testaceus (Szépligeti, 1915)
  Cyanopterus togoanus (Brues, 1926)
  Cyanopterus togoensis (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Cyanopterus tuberculatorius (Shenefelt, 1978)
  Cyanopterus uelleburgensis (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Cyanopterus xanthocarpus (Cameron, 1906)
  Cyanopterus zelotes (Fahringer, 1929)
  Cyanopterus zernyi (Fahringer, 1941)
  Cyanopterus zootrephes (Fahringer, 1929)
  Cyanopterus zykanus (Fahringer, 1929)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of Coleoptera (Bostrichidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Curculionidae), Lepidoptera (Lymantriidae, Pyralidae, Sesiidae), or rarely Diptera (Tephritidae).

References

Brullé, M.A. 1846. Tome Quatričme. Des Hyménoptčres. Les Ichneumonides. In: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau A. "Histoire Naturelles des Insectes." Paris. 680 pp. pp. 56-521.
Cameron, P. 1905
. On the Hymenoptera of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa (Second paper). Record of the Albany Museum. 1: 185-244

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.

Haliday, A.H. 1835. Essay on parasitic Hymenoptera. Entomological Magazine. 3(1): 20-45.
Thunberg, C.P. 1824
. Ichneumonidea, Insecta Hymenoptera illustrata. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg. 9: 285-368.
Thunberg, C.P. 1822. Ichneumonidea, Insecta Hymenoptera illustrata. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg. 8: 49-281.

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

van Achterberg, C. 1982. Notes on some type-species described by Fabricius of the subfamilies Braconinae, Rogadinae, Microgastrinae and Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Entomologische Berichten. Amsterdam 42: 133-139.

van Achterberg, C. 1997. Revision of the Haliday collection of Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 314. 115 pp.

Credits

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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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