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Schlettereriella Szépligeti

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

Schlettereriella Szépligeti,1914

Classification

 

Schlettereriella aurantieiceps (Cameron,1912) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda)

Schlettereriella bicolor (Szépligeti,1914) (Togo)

Schlettereriella brevipetiolata (Szépligeti,1914) (Equatorial Guinea)

Schlettereriella buettneri (Stadelmann,1893 (Togo)

Schlettereriella cameruna (Enderlein,1901) (Cameroon)

Schlettereriella conradti (Szépligeti,1914) (Togo)

Schlettereriella erythrothorax (Cameron,1912) (Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa)

Schlettereriella fuelleborni (Enderlein,1901) (Tanzania)

Schlettereriella flaviceps (Enderlein,1912) (Cameroon)

Schlettereriella flavitarsis (Szépligeti,1914) (Equatorial Guinea)

Schlettereriella fulva (Szépligeti,1914) (Togo)

Schlettereriella gardneri (Nixon,1954) (Kenya)

Schlettereriella guineensis (Szépligeti,1914) (Equatorial Guinea)

Schlettereriella ingens (Enderlein,1901) (Cameroon, Togo)

Schlettereriella oncophorus (Schletterer,1890) (South Africa)

Schlettereriella pulchripennis (Szépligeti,1913) (Nigeria)

Schlettereriella rufithorax (Szépligeti,1911) (Uganda)

Schlettereriella superba (Szépligeti,1911) (Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Uganda)

 

Schlettereriella tessmanni (Szépligeti,1914) (Equatorial Guinea)

Schlettereriella variegata (Szépligeti,1911) (Uganda)

Biology

Parasitoids of wood-boring Coleoptera (Nixon, 1954).

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda)

References

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Belokobylskij, Sergey A. 2011. Review of the genus Stephanospathius Belokobylskij, 1992 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with discussion of their tribal position. Zookeys. 118 :1-17.
Belokobylskij, Sergey A.; Zaldivar-Riverón, Alejandro and Quicke, Donald L.J. 2004. Phylogeny of the genera of the parasitic wasps subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on morphological evidence. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 142(3): 369-404.
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.
Cameron, P. 1912. On the Hymenoptera from Belgian Congo in the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 56:357-401.
Dalla Torre, C.G. de. 1901. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol.III: Trigonalidae, Megalyridae, Stephanidae, Ichneumonidae, Agriotypidae, Evaniidae, Pelecinidae. Guilelmi Engelmann. 1901:1-544.
Enderlein, G. 1912. Zur Kenntnis der Spathiinen und einiger verwandter Gruppen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 78(A):1-37.
Enderlein, G. 1901. Neue Evaniiden, Stephaniden, Mutilliden (Apterogyna), Proctotrupiden und Chalcididen, mit einer Bestimmungstabelle der africanischen Stephaniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 1(3):187-220.
Fischer, M. 1981. Untersuchungen an Stephaniscini aus dem Britischen Museum in London und dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Museum in Budapest (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae). Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse Sitzungsberichte Abteilung I. 190(6-7): 121-160.
Kieffer, J.J. 1904. Stephanides. In: André E. (ed.) "Species des Hyménoptčres d'Europe & d'Algérie. Tome 7." 748 pp. (Stephanidae pp. 471-490)
Nixon, G.E.J. 1943. A revision of the Spathiinae of the Old World (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 93:173-456.
Nixon, G.E.J. 1954. Two new braconid parasites of wood-boring Coleoptera (Hymenoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12(7):380-384.
Quicke, D.L.J.; Ficken, L. and Fitton, M.G. 1992. New diagnostic ovipositor characters for Doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Journal of Natural History. 26:1035-1046.
Quicke, D.L.J.; Palmer-Wilson, J.; Burrough, A. and Broad, G.R. 2004. Discovery of calcium enrichment in cutting teeth of parasitic wasp ovipositors (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). African Entomology. 12(2):259-264.
Quicke, D.L.J.; Tunstead, J.; Falco, J.V. and Marsh, P.M. 1992. Venom gland and reservoir morphology in the Doryctinae and related braconid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Zoologica Scripta. 21:403-416.
Rahman, M.H.; Fitton, M.G. and Quicke, D.L.J. 1998. Ovipositor internal microsculpture and other features in doryctine wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Zoologica Scripta. 27(4): 333-343.
Schletterer, A. 1890. Die Hymenopteren-Gattungen Stenophasmus Smith, Monomachus Westw., Pelecinus Latr. und Megalyra Westw. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 33(1889):197-250.
Shenefelt, R.D. and Marsh, P.M. 1976. Braconidae 9. Doryctinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus (nova editio). Pars 13. pp.1263-1424.
Stadelmann, H. 1893. Stenophasmus büttneri nov. sp. Entomologische Nachrichten. 19:226-227.
Szépligeti, G. 1914. Afrikanische Braconiden des Königl. Zoologischen Museums in Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 7:153-230.
Szépligeti, G. 1913. Braconidae gesammelt von Prof. F. Silvestri in Afrika. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici. 7:101-104.
Szépligeti, G. 1911. Braconidae der I. Zentral-Afrika-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition. 3:393-418.
Szépligeti, G. 1904. Hymenoptera. Fam. Braconidae. Genera Insectorum. 22:1-253.
Viereck, H.L. 1914. Type species of the genera of Ichneumon flies. United States National Museum Bulletin. No.83. 186 pp.
Wilkinson, D.S. 1931. On the Indo-Australian and Ethiopian species of the Braconid genus Spathius (Hymenoptera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 79:505-530.
Zaldivar-Riverón, Alejandro; Mori, Miharu and Quicke, Donald L.J. 2006. Systematics of the cyclostome subfamilies of braconid parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea): A simultaneous molecular and morphological Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 38(1): 130-145.

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