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Hormius Nees
of the Afrotropical Region
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Hormiinae)
Hormius Nees, 1819: 305; Type species: Bracon moniliatus Nees, 1811.
Anhormius Belokobylskij, 1989: 387. Type species: Anhormius propodealis Belokobylskij, 1989.
Chlidonia Herrich-Schäffer, 1838: 157. Type species: Bracon moniliatus Nees, 1811.
Hormiellus Enderlein, 1912: 20. Type species: Hormiellus solocipes Enderlein, 1912.
Hormisca Telenga, 1941: 115. Type species: Hormisca tatianae Telenga, 1941.
Mediella Hedqvist, 1963: 52. Type species: Mediella romani Hedqvist, 1963.
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Hormius capensis Hedqvist,1963 (South Africa) |
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Hormius elegans Szépligeti,1914 (Kenya, Somalia) |
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Hormius flavicauda Granger,1949 (Madagascar) |
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Hormius haeselbarthi Belokobylskij, 2026 (South Africa) |
Biology
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Idiobiont ectoparasitiods of microlepidopteran larvae (Coleophoridae, Crambidae, Depressariidae, Gelechiidae, Geometridae, Gracillariidae, Pyralidae, Tortricidae and Scythrididae).
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Distribution
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Kenya, Madagascar, Somalia, South Africa. |
References
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Belokobylskij, S.A. 2026. Brachypterous and micropterous species of the genus Hormius Nees (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Hormiinae). Zootaxa, 5763 (3), 435–447. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5763.3.8e |
| Credits |
Photographs © Sergey Belokobylskij (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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