of the Afrotropical region

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

Distatrix Mason, 1981: 93. Type species: Apanteles papilionis Viereck, 1912, by original designation.

Distatrix anthedon (Nixon, 1965) (South Africa)

Distatrix belliger (Wilkinson, 1929) (Mauritius, Reunion)

Distatrix cerales (Nixon, 1965) (Uganda)

Distatrix cuspidalis (de Saeger, 1944) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Distatrix euproctidis (Ullyett, 1946) (South Africa)

Distatrix flava (Fernandez-Triana & van Achterberg, 2017) (Yemen)

Distatrix geometrivora (de Saeger, 1941) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda)

Distatrix gratiosus (Wilkinson, 1930) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda)

Distatrix maia (Nixon, 1965) (South Africa)

Distatrix pallidocinctus (Gahan, 1918) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Distatrix simulissimus (de Saeger, 1944) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast)

Distatrix tookei (Shenefelt, 1972) (South Africa)

Distatrix tormina (Nixon, 1965) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Distatrix ugandaensis (Gahan, 1918) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda)

Distatrix yemeniticus van Achterberg & Fernandez-Triana, 2017 (Yemen)

Distatrix yunae Rousse & Gupta, 2013 (Reunion)

Biology

Solitary or gregararious endoparasitoids (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larvae.

Distribution

Worldwide.

References

Austin, A.D. & Dangerfield, P.C. 1992. Synopsis of Australian Microgasterinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with a key to genera and a description of new taxa. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6:1-76.

Fernandez-Triana, J & Boudreault, C. 2018. Seventeen new genera of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from tropical areas of the world. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 64: 25-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.64.25453

Fernandez-Triana J, Shaw MR, Boudreault C, Beaudin M, Broad GR 2020. Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 920: 1-1089. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.920.39128

Mason, W.R.M. 1981. The polyphyletic nature of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. No. 115. 147pp.

Nixon, G.E.J. 1965. A reclassification of the tribe Microgasterini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology series. Supplement 2:1-284.

Risbec, J. 1951. Les Microgasterinae de l'Afrique occidentale francaise. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire, 13,411–473.

Rousse, P. & Gupta A. 2013. Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local species, including 18 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa 3616 (6): 501–547. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.1

Shenefelt, R.D. 1972. Braconidae 4. Microgasterinae Apanteles. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 7:429-668.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1973. Braconidae 5. Microgasterinae amd Ichneutinae. Hymenopterum Catalogus, Pars 9:669-812.

Whitfield, J.B., Mardulyn, P., Austin, A.D. & Dowton, M. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships among microgastrine braconid wasp genera based on data from the 16S, COI and 28S genes and morphology. Systematic Entomology, 27, 337–359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00183.x

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

Photographs © Jose L Fernandez-Triana (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada)

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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