Oobius longoi (Siscaro)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Encyrtidae; Subfamily: Encyrtinae; Genus: Oobius)

Avetianella longoi Siscaro, 1992. Type in .

Distribution

Australia, California, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Sicily, South Africa, South Australia, Spain, Zambia.

Biology

Egg parasitoid of wood boring beetle larvae (Cerambycidae).

References

Noyes, J.S. 2010. Encyrtidae of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), 3. Subfamily Encyrtinae: Encyrtini, Echthroplexiellini, Discodini, Oobiini and Ixodiphagini, parasitoids associated with bugs (Hemiptera), insect eggs (Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Neuroptera) and ticks (Acari). In Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. Vol. 84, 848pp

Trjapitzin, V.A. 1963. Species of the genus Oobius gen.n. (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) in the USSR. Sborník Entomologického Oddeleni Národního Musea v Praze 35, 543–547.

Trjapitzin, V.A. 1968. A survey of the encyrtid fauna (Hym. Encyrtidae) of the Caucasus. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva 52, 43–125.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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