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Dichoteleas Kieffer

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Scelionidae; Subfamily: Scelioninae)

Dichoteleas Kieffer, 1907. Type species: Dichoteleas rugosus Kieffer, 1907.

 

Dichoteleas ambrisotrae Risbec, 1956 (Madagascar)

  Dichoteleas fulgidus Schwartz, van Noort, & Johnson, 2023 (Indonesia)
  Dichoteleas fuscus Schwartz, van Noort, & Johnson, 2023 (Australia, Papua New Guinea)
  Dichoteleas indicus Saraswat, 1982 (India)

Dichoteleas hamatus Schwartz, van Noort, & Johnson, 2023 (Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania)

  Dichoteleas rubyae Schwartz, van Noort, & Johnson, 2023 (Madagascar)
  Dichoteleas rugosus Kieffer, 1907 (Australia)
  Dichoteleas striatus Schwartz, van Noort, & Johnson, 2023 (Madagascar)
  Dichoteleas subcoeruleus Dodd, 1926 (Australia)
  Dichoteleas umbra Schwartz, van Noort, & Johnson, 2023 (Tanzania)

Distribution

Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania.

Also in Australasian and Oriental regions.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Kieffer, J.J. 1907. Beschreibung neuer im British Museum zu London aufbewahrter Proctotrypiden. Berl. Entomol. Z. 51:279-302.

Risbec, J. 1956. Proctotrupides Scelionini de Madagascar [Hyménoptéres]. Rev. Franç. Entomol. 23: 244-264.

Schwartz J, Van Noort S, Johnson NF. 2023. A taxonomic revision of the Old World genus Dichoteleas Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae). ZooKeys 1182: 183-205. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1182.104943.

Credits

Photographs © Robert Copeland (ICIPE), or

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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