Pristomerus dikidiki ( lat. ) - a species of small riders - ichneumonids ( Ichneumonidae ) of the genus Pristomerus from the subfamily Cremastinae . Africa : DRC [1] .
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Description
Small riders with a slender body, abdomen compressed laterally, body length about 12 mm, antenna length about 6 mm, front wing length 7.7 mm. Antenna with 38 segments of flagellum. Clypeus and mesonotum densely punctured. The main body color is black (yellow mandibles). 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 ). The species was first described in 2015 by South African hymenopterologists Pascal Rousse ; Natural History Department, South African Isico-Museum , Cape Town , South Africa and Simon van Noort ; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town , Rondebosch , South Africa [1] [2] .
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 .
- ↑ 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.