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Schoenlandella punctata (Szépligeti)

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

Cardiochiles punctatus Szépligeti, 1913. Holotype in National Museum of Hungary, Budapest. Type locality: Tanzania.

Cardiochiles striatus Brues, 1924. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa.

 

 

Classification

Biology

Unknown, but probably an endoparasitoid (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larvae.

Distribution

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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.

Szépligeti, G. 1913. Neue afrikanische Braconiden aus der Sammlung der Ungarischen National-Museum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 11: 592-608.

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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