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Schoenlandella nigromaculata Cameron

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

Schoenlandella nigromaculata Cameron, 1905. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Pearston, South Africa.

 

Classification

 

Biology

Endoparasitoid of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera) feeding on cotton, Gossypium hirsutum.

Distribution

Malawi, South Africa, Uganda. Also Oriental region: Sri Lanka.

References

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.

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.

Dangerfield PC, Austin AD, Whitfield JB. 1999. Systematics of the world genera of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 917-976.

Edmardash YA, Gadallah NS & Sharkey MJ. 2018. Revision of the subfamily Cardiochilinae Ashmead, 1900 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Egypt, with new records and a new species. Journal of Natural History 52: 269 - 297. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1420834

Huddleston, T.,  & Walker. A.T. 1988. Cardiochiles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a parasitoid of the lepidopterous larvae, in the Sahel of Africa, with a review of the biology and host relationships of the genus. Bulletin of the Entomological Research 78:435-461.

Mason, W.R.M. 1983. A new South African subfamily related to Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 20:49-62.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1973. Braconidae 5. Microgasterinae amd Ichneutinae. Hymenopterum Catalogus, Pars 9:669-812.

Credits

Photographs © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

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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