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Dasylabrini

of the Afrotropical region

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Pompiloidea: Family: Mutillidae; Subfamily: Dasylabrinae)

Classification

Chrestomutilla Brothers, 1971

Dasylabris Radoszkowski, 1885.

Dasylabroides André, 1901

 

Stenomutilla André, 1896

Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski, 1885

Distribution

Afrotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic.

Biology

Ectoparasitoids of larvae or pupa of other insects.

References

André, E. 1896. Notes pour servir à la connaissance de mutilles paléarctiques et description de quelques espèces nouvelles. Deuxieme partie. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France, 9, 261–277.

André, E. 1901–1902. Matériaux pour servir à la connaissance des Mutillides d'Afrique. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, (1901b) 1, 279–288, 305–352; (1902a) 2, 17–48.
André, E. 1901. Description de cinq nouvelles espèces de Mutilles de Madagascar. (Hym.). Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, 1, 137–144.

Ashmead, W.H. 1900–1904. Classification of the fossorial, predaceous and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea. The Canadian Entomologist, (1900) 32, 145–155, 185–188, 295–296; (1902) 34, 79–88, 131–137, 163–166, 203–210, 219–231, 268–273, 287–291; (1903) 35, 3–8, 39–44, 95–107, 155–158, 199–205, 303–310, 323–332; (1904) 36, 5–9.

Bayliss P, Brothers DJ. 1996. Biology of Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski in Southern Africa, with a New Synonymy and Review of Recent Biological Literature (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymneoptera Research 5: 249-258.

Brothers, D.J. 1971. The genera of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) parasitic on tsetse flies (Glossina, Diptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 34: 101-102.

Brothers DJ, Lelej AS 2017. Phylogeny and higher classification of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) based on morphological reanalyses. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 60: 1-97. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.60.20091

Radoszkowski, O. 1885. Revision des armures copulatrices des mâles de la famille de Mutillides. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 19(1–2), 3–49, + 9 pls.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Denis Brothers (University of Kwazulu-Natal).


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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