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Hormiinae

of the Afrotropical Region

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

Classification

Hormius Nees, 1819
  Parachremylus Granger, 1949
  Parahormius Nixon, 1940
  Pseudohormius Tobias and Alexeev, 1973

Biology

Idiobiont ectoparasitoids of concealed insect larvae, mostly Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, but also Diptera and Hymenoptera.

Distribution

Worldwide.

References

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).


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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