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Centistes Haliday

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

Centistes Haliday, 1835

Classification

Centistes caloupile Rousse & Braet, 2012 (Reunion)

 

Centistes flavipes Szépligeti,1911 (Kenya)

 

Centistes fossulatus Granger,1949 (Madagascar)

 

Centistes fulvicollis Granger,1949 (Madagascar)

 

Centistes ophthalmicus Granger,1949 (Madagascar)

 

Centistes punctatus (Brues,1926) (South Africa)

Diagnosis

Maxillary and labial palpi with, respectively, 5–6 and 3 segments. Eyes with sparse and short pilosity. Occipital carina complete dorsally, joining hypostomal carina near base of mandibles. Subocullar sulcus present. Notaulus absent. Epicnemial carina complete. Propodeum often with arched transverse median carina. Forewing with 2R1 comparatively short, M+Cu spectral, Rs tubular to wing apex or nearly so, 1/Rs present, Rs+M present, 1cu-a distal to M, 2cu-a present as a faint trace. Tarsal claws simple. Metasomal tergite I short and sessile, with glymma present as a deep basal pit. Hypopygium usually densely setose. Ovipositor long though mostly concealed, flat and falcate, sheath usually short and thin but sometimes long or thick (Rousse & Braet, 2012).

Biology

Solitary enparasitoids (koinobiont) of Coleoptera (mostly of Curculionidae, Chrysomelidae, Coccinellidae and Carabidae).

Distribution

Worldwide, except Australia.

References

Rousse, P. & Braet, Y. 2012. Braconid wasps (Hymenoptera) of Reunion. 1. Euphorinae (including Meteorini): key to species and description of six new species. Zootaxa 3449: 26–46.

Shaw, M.R. and T. Huddleston 1991. Classification and biology of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Handbooks for the Identification of the British Insects, Vol. 7, Part 11. Royal Entomological Society of London, London, England. 126pp.

Shaw, S.R. 1985. A phylogenetic study of the subfamilies Meteorinae and Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Entomography 3:277-370.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1969. Braconidae 1. Hybrizoninae, Euphorinae, Cosmophorinae, Neoneurinae, Macrocentrinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 4:1-176.

Credits

Phototographs by Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN. Visit the MNHN database http://coldb.mnhn.fr


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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