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Oobius Trjapitzin, 1963
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Chalcidoidea; Family:
Encyrtidae; Subfamily: Encyrtinae)
Oobius Trjapitzin, 1963.
Type species Tyndarichus rudnevi Nowicki, 1928 by original designation.
Avetianella Trjapitzin, 1968a: 97-99. Type species Avetianella capnodiobia Trjapitzin, 1968.by original monotypy.
Szelenyiola Trjapitzin, 1977b: 160. Type species Szelenyiola nearctica Trjapitzin, 1977 by original designation or monotypy.
Oophagus Liao, 1987 in Liao, Li, X.F. & Chen, 1987: 184. Type species Oophagus batocerae Liao, 1987 original designation or monotypy . |
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Oobius abditus Annecke, 1967
(South
Africa)
Oobius funestus Annecke, 1967 (South Africa) |
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Oobius longoi (Siscaro, 1992) (Australia, California, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Sicily, South Africa, South Australia, Spain, Zambia) |
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Oobius striatus Annecke, 1967 (Zimbabwe)
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Distribution |
Argentina, Australia, California, Costa Rica, Hungary, Illinois, India, Italy, Michigan, Oregon, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia, Zhytomyr.
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Biology |
Egg parasitoids of wood boring beetle larvae (Buprestidae, Cerambycidae).
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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). |
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