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Gnamptodontinae

of the Afrotropical Region

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

Classification

 

Gnamptodon Haliday, 1833

 

Neognamptodon Belokobylskij, 1999

Biology

Parasitoids of leaf-mining larvae of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera).

Distribution

Worldwide.

References

Shenefelt, R.D. 1975. Braconidae 8. Exothecinae, Rogadinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 12:1115-1262.

van Achterberg, C. 1983. Revisionary notes on the subfamily Gnaptodontinae, with description of eleven new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 126: 25-57.

Credits

 

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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