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Ademon Haliday

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

Ademon Haliday, 1833. Type species: Bracon decrescens Nees, 1811.

ClassificationOpiinae keys

Ademon angolanus Fischer, 1963 (Angola)

Ademon lagarosiphonae van Achterberg, 2012 (South Africa)

Biology

Aquatic parasitoids of Hydrellia species (Diptera: Ephydridae), aquatic leafminers of a couple of plant genera in the family Hydrocharitaceae (Baars et al. 2010; Bownes 2014; Cabrera Walsh et al. 2013; Coetzee et al. 2011; van Achterberg & Prinsloo, 2012; van Noort et al. in press; Wheeler and Center 2001).

Distribution

Afrotropical, Holarctic and Oriental regions.

References

Baars JR, Coetzee JA, Martin G, Hill M, Caffrey J. (2010) Natural enemies from South Africa for biological control of Lagarosiphon major (Ridl.) Moss ex Wager (Hydrocharitaceae) in Europe. Hydrobiologia 656: 149-–158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0427-0
Bownes A (2014)
Suitability of a leaf-mining fly Hydrellia sp., for biological control of the invasive aquatic weed, Hydrilla verticillata in South Africa. Biocontrol 59: 771-–780.
Cabrera Walsh G, Dalto YM, Mattioli FM, Carruthers RI, Anderson LW (2013) Biology and ecology of Brazilian elodea (Egeria densa) and its specific herbivore, Hydrellia sp., in Argentina. Biocontrol 58: 133-–147.
Coetzee, J.A., Bownes, A. & Martin, G.D. 2011. Prospects for the biological control of submerged macrophytes in South Africa. In: Moran, V.C., Hoffmann, J.N. & Hill, M.P. (Eds) Biological Control of Invasive Alien Plants in South Africa (1992–2010). 469–487. African Entomology (Special Issue) 19(2).

Fischer, M. 1963. Die Opiinae der äthiopischen Region (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 13: 662-747.

Fischer, M. 1971. Index of entomophagous insects, Hym., Braconidae, World Opiinae. Le François, Paris, France. 189 pp.

Fischer, M. 1972. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae I) Das Tiereich 91, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xii + 620 pp.

Fischer, M. 1977. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae II-Amerika). Das Tiereich 91, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xxvii + 1001 pp

Fischer, M. 1987. Hymenoptera: Braconidae (Opiinae III-äthiopische, orientalische, autralische und oceanische Region. Das Tierreich 104, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. xv + 734 pp.

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G. 1811. Ichneumonides Adsciti, in Genera et Familias Divisi. Magazin Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 5(1811). 37 pp.

van Achterberg, C. & Prinsloo, G.L. 2012. Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Opiinae, Alysiinae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining Diptera on Lagarosiphon major (Hydrocharitaceae) in South Africa. African Entomology 20: 124–133.

van Noort S, Smith R, Coetzee JA. 2021. Identity of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae and Eulophidae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) on invasive Brazilian waterweed Egeria densa in South Africa. African Invertebrates 62: 287–314. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.62.62842

Wheeler GS, Center TD (2001) Impact of the biological control agent Hydrellia pakistanae (Diptera: ephydridae) on the submersed aquatic weed Hydrilla verticillata (Hydrocharitaceae). Biological Control 21: 168-–181.

Credits

Photographs and line drawings © Kees van Achterberg (Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden), or photographs © 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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