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Classification

Stantonia Ashmead

of the Afrotropical region

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

Stantonia Ashmead, 1904.

  Stantonia caudata (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)
 

Stantonia eala Braet & Quicke, 2004 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone)

  Stantonia garamba Braet & Quicke, 2004 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo)
  Stantonia hammersteini Enderlein, 1908 (Botswana, Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda)
  Stantonia mara Braet & Quicke, 2004 (Kenya)
  Stantonia ngilima Braet & Quicke, 2004 (Botswana, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe)
  Stantonia seyrigi (Granger, 1949) (Madagascar)
  Stantonia testacea Szépligeti, 1908 (Tanzania)
 

Stantonia veronicae Braet & Quicke, 2004 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda)

  Stantonia wonvillei Braet & Quicke, 2004 (Ivory Coast)
Stantonia species (South Africa)

Biology

Solitary endoparasitoids (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larvae.

Distribution

Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28: 127-158.

Braet, Y, van Achterberg, C, Chen, X-X. 2000. Notes on the tribe Mimagathidini Enderlein, with the description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Orgilinae). Zoologische Mededelingen 73. 465-486.

Braet, Y, Quicke, DLJ. 2004. A phylogenetic analysis of the Mimagathidini with revisionary notes on the genus Stantonia Ashmead, 1904 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Orgilinae). Journal of Natural History 38(12): 1489-1589. https://doi.org/10.1080/0022293031000155313

Enderlein, G. 1908. Neue Arten der Braconidengattung Stantonia. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 69: 110-112.

Granger, C. 1947. Braconides de Madagascar. Memoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar (A) 2: 1-428.

Haliday, A.H. 1833. An essay on the classification of the parasitic Hymenoptera of Britain, which correspond with the Ichneumones minuti of Linnaeus. Entomological Magazine 1(iii): 259-276, 333-350.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1970. Braconidae 2. Helconinae, Calyptinae, Mimagathidinae, Triaspinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 5:177-305.

Szepligeti, G. 1908. Hymenoptera: Braconidae & Ichneumonidae. In: Sjostedts Y. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen. pp 25-96.

Szépligeti, G. 1914. Afrikanische Braconiden des Belgischen Naturhistorischen Museums. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 58: 109-118.

Szépligeti, G. 1914. Afrikanische Braconiden des Königl. Zoologischen Museums in Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 7: 153-230.

van Achterberg, C. 1987. Revisionary notes on the subfamily Orgilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 242: 1-111.

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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