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Trigastrotheca Cameron

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

Trigastrotheca Cameron, 1906. Type species: Trigastrotheca trilobata Cameron, 1906.

Coelodontus Roman, 1912. Type species: Ichneumon costator Thunberg, 1822. Synonymy by Quicke (1987).

Kenema van Achterberg, 1983. Type species: Kenema quickei van Achterberg, 1983. Synonymy by Quicke (1987).

Odontopygia Enderlein, 1920. Type species: Odontopygia tridentata Enderlein, 1920

Trigastrotheca laikipiensis Quicke, 2005

 

Trigastrotheca nigricornis Cameron, 1910

 

Trigastrotheca quickei (van Achterberg, 1983)

Trigastrotheca romani Quicke, 2005

 

Trigastrotheca rugosa (Szépligeti, 1914)

 

Trigastrotheca serrata (van Achterberg & Sigwalt, 1987)

Trigastrotheca trilobata Cameron, 1906

Trigastrotheca species

Distribution

Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Also in Australasian and Oriental regions.

Biology

Parasitoids of ant brood (Formicidae) nesting in specialized Acacia thorn domatia (Quicke & Stanton 2005, Stanton et al. 2005).

Reference

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. 1910. On some African species of the subfamilies Exothecinae, Aphrastobraconinae, Cheloninae, Doryctinae, Cardiochilinae and Microgasterinae in the Royal Berlin Zoological Museum. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 81: 433-450.

Enderlein, G. 1920. Zur Kenntnis aussereuropäischer Braconiden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 84(A)11(1918):51-224.

Horstmann, K. 1999. Zur Interpretation der von Thunberg in der Gattung Ichneumon Linnaeus beschriebenen oder benannten Arten (Hymenoptera). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 51: 65-74.

Quicke, D.L.J. 1987. The Old World genera of braconine wasps. Journal of Natural History 21:43-197.

Quicke, D.L.J. & Stanton, M. L. 2005. Trigastrotheca laikipiensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A new species of brood parasitic wasp that attacks foundress queens of three coexisting Acacia-ant species in Kenya. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 14(2): 182-190.
Stanton, M.L., Palmer, T.M. & Young, T.P. 2005. Ecological barriers to early colony establishment in three coexisting acacia-ant species in Kenya. Insectes Sociaux 52(4): 393-401.

Thunberg, C.P. 1824. Ichneumonidea, Insecta Hymenoptera illustrata. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg. 9:285-368.

van Achterberg, C. 1983. Six new genera of Braconinae from the Afrotropical Region (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 126: 175-202.

van Achterberg, C. & Sigwalt, B. 1987. Three new genera of Braconinae from the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 61(31): 443-458.

Credits

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Map illustration © 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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