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Dinocampus Förster

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

Dinocampus Förster, 1862

Classification

Dinocampus coccinellae (Schrank, 1802)

Biology

Solitary endoparasitoids (koinobiont) of Coleoptera (Chrysomelidae, Coccinellidae, Curculionidae) emerging from adult host.

Distribution

Worldwide.

References

Minnaar IA, Shinner R, van Noort S & Clusella-Trullas S. 2014. New records of the parasitic wasp Dinocampus coccinellae and its hosts in South Africa. African Entomology 22: 226-229. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.022.0124

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.

Yu D.S., van Achterberg K., Horstmann K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

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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