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Entedon Dalman

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eulophidae; Subfamily: Entedoninae)

Entedon Dalman, 1820: 136. Type species: Entedon cyanellus Dalman, 1820 in Ashmead, 1904: 342 by subsequent designation

Pleuropachus Westwood, 1837: 437. Type species Entedon costalis Dalman, 1820 by original monotypy.

Tranocera Curtis, 1837: 114. Type species by original monotypy Entedon costalis Dalman, 1820.

Eriglyptus Crawford, 1907: 179. Type species by original monotypy Eriglyptus robustus Crawford, 1907

Metacrias Girault, 1913: 106. Type species by original monotypy Metacrias australiansis Girault, 1913

Entedonella Girault, 1913: 154. Type species Entedonella magnifica Girault & Dodd, 1913

Pelorotelopsella Girault, 1913: 148. Type species Pelorotelopsella genu Girault, 1913

Uracrias Girault, 1913: 156. Type species by original monotypy Uracrias excelsus Girault, 1913

Metriocharis Silvestri, 1914: 214. Type species by original designation Metriocharis viridis Silvestri, 1914

Entedonella Girault, 1913 (subjective synonym of Entedon Dalman, 1820) in Girault, 1917: 110.

Eriglyptus Crawford, 1907 (subjective synonym of Entedon Dalman, 1820) in Girault, 1917: 110.

Acanthentedon Dodd, 1917: 363-364. Type species by original monotypy Acanthentedon laticeps Dodd, 1917.

 Classification
Entedon species (South Africa)
 

Entedon albiziarum Rasplus, 1990 (Ivory Coast)

Entedon apionidis Ferrière, 1938 (Ivory Coast, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania)

Entedon atrocyanea (Silvestri, 1914) (Eritrea)

Entedon Boučeki Rasplus, 1990 (Ivory Coast)

Entedon bruchivorus Rasplus, 1990 (Ivory Coast)

Entedon danielssoni Gumovsky, 1997 (South Africa)

Entedon delvarei Rasplus, 1990 (Senegal)

Entedon diabolus Rasplus, 1990 (Ivory Coast)

Entedon halli Gumovsky, 1997 (Sierra Leone)

Entedon minimus (Delucchi, 1956) (Congo)

Entedon omnivorus Rasplus, 1990 (Ivory Coast)

Entedon perturbatus Walker, 1862 (South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Entedon pterocarpi Rasplus, 1990 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Entedon senegalensis Rasplus, 1990 (Senegal)

Entedon syleptae Benoit, 1949 (Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo)

Entedon viridis (Silvestri, 1914) (Eritrea)

Entedon vuattouxi Rasplus, 1990 (Ivory Coast, Senegal)

Entedon zairensis Rasplus, 1990 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Distribution

 Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of a wide range of insects.

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies, or the superfamily Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1(4), i–xi, 225–551, pls xxxi–xxxix. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10341

Dalman, J.W. 1820. Försök till Uppställning af Insect-familjen Pteromalini, i synnerhet med afseen de på de i Sverige funne Arter. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 41(1), 123–174,177–182, tab VII-VIII.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © 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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