Pristomerus ( lat. ) - the genus of small riders - ichneumonids ( Ichneumonidae ) from the subfamily Cremastinae . About 150 species (about 30 in Africa, 15 in Madagascar) [1] .
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Description
Small riders with a slender body, abdomen compressed laterally, front wing length from 2 to 8 mm, body length from 3 to 10 mm. The main color of the body is from yellow to black. The palp formula is 5: 4 (5 mandibular and 4 lower labial segments). The clypeus is separated from the face by a groove. There is a prong in the lower part of the hips. Tiridia is developed near the base of the 2nd tergite of the abdomen. Parasites of hiding caterpillars of small butterflies ( Lepidoptera ). Among the hosts there are pests of important crops: Poaceae (rice, corn), Solanaceae (potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco), Fabaceae , Rosaceae (apple tree, peach), Malvaceae (cotton).
The genus was first identified in 1836 by the British entomologist John Curtis (John Curtis, 1791-1862) [2] and revised in 2015 by South African hymenopterologists Pascal Rousse ; Natural History Department, South African Isico-Museum , Cape Town , South Africa and Simon van Noort ( Simon van Noort ; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town , Rondebosch , South Africa) [1] [3] .
Systematics
Synonyms
- Pristomeridia Ashmead, 1900
- Pristocelus Szépligeti, 1905
- Neopristomerus Viereck, 1912
- Nesanomalon Morley, 1913
Views
- P. albescens (Morley, 1917)
- P. anxius Gauld, 2000
- P. afrikaner Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. aka Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. babinga Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. bemba Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. dikidiki Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. herero Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. hutu Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. kagga Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. khoikhoi Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. kuku Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. masai Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. mbaka Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. mbama Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. mboum Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. nzakara Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. protea Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. restio Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. san Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. sara Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. sotho Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. swahili Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. teke Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. tutsi Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. venda Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. vulnerability (Panzer, 1799)
- P. wolof Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. xhosa Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. yakoma Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. yangere Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. yoccolo Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. zande Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- P. zulu Rousse & van Noort, 2015
- Other species
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Pascal Rousse & Simon van Noort. Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with descriptions of 31 new species (English) // European Journal of Taxonomy: Journal. - Paris : Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , 2015 .-- Vol. 124, no. 2 . - P. 1–129. - ISSN 2118-9773 .
- ↑ Curtis J., 1836: British Entomology, being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. 13: 625 pp. London, England. [original description: p. 156]
- ↑ Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. III. Hymenoptera. The third part. (Atanasov A.Z., Jonaitis V.P., Kasparyan D.R. , Kuslitsky V.S., Rasnitsyn A.P. , Siytan U.V., Tolkanits V.I.) / under the general. ed. G. S. Medvedev . - L .: Nauka, 1981. - S. 369-370. - 688 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 129). - 3550 copies.
Literature
- Horstmann K. Die westpaläarktischen Arten der Gattung Pristomerus Curtis, 1836 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) (German) // Entomofauna: Ztschr. fur Entomologie: Magazine. - Munchen, 1990 .-- Vol. 11. - P. 9-44. - ISSN 0250-4413 .
- Rousse P., Villemant C. & Seyrig A. Ichneumonid wasps from Madagascar. VI. The genus Pristomerus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae) (English) // European Journal of Taxonomy: Journal. - Paris : Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , 2013 .-- Vol. 49. - P. 1-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.49
- Townes HT The Genera of Ichneumonidae. Part 4. (Cremastinae, Phrudinae, Tersilochinae, Ophioninae, Mesochorinae, Metopiinae, Anomalinae, Acaenitinae, Microleptinae, Orthopelmatinae, Collyriinae, Orthocentrinae, Diplazontinae) (English) Journal of the Institute of Mathematics - Gainesville: American Entomological Institute, 1971. - Vol. 17. - P. 1—372.
Links
- Pristomerus (English) . eol.org. Date of treatment November 2, 2015.