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Aleiodes Wesmael, 1838

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

Classification

Aleirhogas Baker, 1917

Aliodes Agassiz, 1846

Cordylorhogas Enderlein, 1920

Heterogamoides Fullaway, 1919

Hyperstemma Shestakov, 1940

Jirunia Malác, 1941

Leluthinus Enderlein, 1912

Nebartha Walker, 1860

Schizoides Wesmael, 1838

 

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) africanus (Szépligeti, 1908) (Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Tanzania)    

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) aligarhensis (Qadri, 1933) (Bangladesh, Chad, India, Spain)    

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) alluaudi (Szépligeti, 1914) (Tanzania)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) alutaceus (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) annulatus (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) antananarivoensis Shenefelt, 1975 (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) breviradialis (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar, Zambia)      

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) caudatus (Szépligeti, 1913) (Ethiopia)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) curtispina (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) dedivus (Szépligeti, 1914) (Burkina, Faso, Kenya, Madagascar, Togo)

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) diversicornis (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) excisus (Szépligeti, 1913) (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) forticornis (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)

 

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) longicornis (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) longipes (Szépligeti, 1906) (Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania)     

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) nigrinervis (Szépligeti, 1908) (Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda)  

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) perinetensis Shenefelt, 1975 (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) plurilineatus (Cameron, 1911) (South Africa)      

 

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) rogezensis (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) transversestriatus (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)       

Aleiodes (Aleiodes) trifasciatus (Enderlein, 1920) (Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa)    

 

Aleiodes (Chelonorhogas) africanus (Enderlein, 1920) (Tanzania)

Aleiodes (Chelonorhogas) insignis (Brues, 1926) (Uganda)

Aleiodes (Chelonorhogas) maculicornis (Brues, 1926) (Uganda)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) amoretae Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (South Africa)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) apicalis (Brues, 1926) (South Africa)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) bipanna (van Achterberg, 1991) (Kenya, Nigeria)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) certus van Achterberg, 1991 (Madagascar)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) cusackae Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (Uganda)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) elgon Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (Kenya)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) faddenae Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (South Africa)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) fenwickae Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

 

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) glandularis Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (South Africa)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) inopinus van Achterberg, 1991 (Madagascar)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) madagascariensis (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)   

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) meruensis Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (

Kenya)

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) pappi Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (Kenya)   

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) plurivena Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (South Africa)  

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) sharkeyi Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (Madagascar)   

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) trianguliscleroma Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (Malawi and Kenya) 

Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) ugandaensis Butcher and Quicke, 2011 (Uganda)

Aleiodes (Neorhogas) deminutus (Szépligeti, 1914) (Tanzania)

Aleiodes (Neorhogas) jeanneli (Szépligeti, 1914) (Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania) 

Biology

Parasitoids of butterfly and moth larvae (Lepidoptera). The caterpillar is killed and mummified before the wasp larva pupates inside the host remains (Zaldivar-Riverón et al. 2009).

Distribution

Worldwide.

References

Areekul-Butcher, B & Quicke, DLJ. 2011. Revision of Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) with reappraisal of subgeneric limits, descriptions of new species and phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Natural History 45: 1403-1476.

Broad GR. 2021. Taxonomic changes in Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), and notes on certain type specimens. Zootaxa 4941: 511–541. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4941.4.3

Quicke DLJ. 2015. Biology, Systematics, Evolution and Ecology of Braconid and Ichneumonid Parasitoid Wasps. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, 688 pp.

van Achterberg C. 1991. Revision of the genera of the Afrotropical and W. Palaearctic Rogadinae Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 273: 1–102.

van Achterberg C. 1995. Generic revision of the subfamily Betylobraconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and other groups with modified fore tarsus. Zoologisches Verhandelingen, Leiden 298: 1–242.

Zaldivar-Riverón A, Mori M, Quicke DLJ. 2006. Systematics of the cyclostome subfamilies of braconid parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea): a simultaneous molecular and morphological Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 130–145. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.08.006

Zaldivar-Riverón A, Shaw MR, Sáez AG, Mori M, Belokobylskij SA, Shaw SR, Quicke DLJ. 2009. Evolution of the parasitic wasp subfamily Rogadinae (Braconidae): phylogeny and evolution of lepidopteran host ranges and mummy characteristics. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 329. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-329

Credits

Photographs © Buntika A. Butcher (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), or photographs © Kirstin Williams (Durban Natural History Museum, South Africa), or photographs © Gavin Broad (NHMUK, London).

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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