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Schizopyga Gravenhorst, 1829

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

Schizopyga Gravenhorst, 1829. Type species: .

Afrosphincta Benoit, 1953. Type species: Afrosphincta congica Benoit, 1953. Synonymy by Gauld  & Dubois (2006).

 

Schizopyga alinae Varga & Reshchikov 2018

 

Schizopyga congica (Benoit, 1953)

Schizopyga curvicauda (Seyrig, 1935)

 

Schizopyga congica (Benoit, 1953)

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Uganda.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Gauld, I & Dubois, J 2006. Phylogeny of the Polysphincta group of genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Pimplinae): A taxonomic revision of spider ectoparasitoids. Systematic Entomology. 31. 529 - 564. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00334.x

Varga O & Reshchikov A. 2018. Schizopyga alinae, a genus of pimpline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) new to the Afrotropical region. Zootaxa 4422: 291–295. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4422.2.9

Credits

Photographs © Oleksandr Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine).

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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