Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another Ichneumon ?

Posted by Jan Willem on 25-08-2006 12:18
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I asked Kees van Achterberg if he agreed with me about the specimen being a member of the subfamily Alysiinae. Well he did agree with me and wrote the following:

It's a species of the genus Asobara s.l. (so including Aphaereta). It's a male. Difficult to identify!


So: Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae: Alysiinae: Asobara (s.l.) spec.

Aphaereta used to be treated as a separate genus but is currently regarded as a subgenus of the genus Asobara.

For as far as I know Asobara species are known as important parasitoids of Drosophilidae (I didn't get this information from Kees).

Jan Willem