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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Caterpillar Mummy Wasps (Rogadinae) » Choreborogas 0 (Choreborogas)

Genus Choreborogas - Choreborogas 0

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)
Family Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)
Subfamily Rogadinae (Caterpillar Mummy Wasps)
Genus Choreborogas (Choreborogas 0)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Choreborogas Whitfield, 1990
Numbers
About 8 described New World Species, mostly Neotropical spp. not found in our area
Size
tiny: 1-3 mm
Identification
See general Braconidae identification
cyclostome "mouth." Also see this image.. As can be seen from these 2 images, the cyclostome mouth is defined by the dorso-ventrally short clypeus and the concave labrum, bordered ventrally by the mandibles.
Mummification of host remains. Here and here are examples of rogadine mummies.
Occipital carina present. (See p. 99 in Fortier 2009 (PDF)(1) for image of occipital carina.
Metasomal tergites 1-4 forming a carapace-like structure that covers most of remaining tergites when viewed from above. Surface sculpturing of this structure granular or pitted.
Malar space short, less than half eye height(short malar space separates this genus from Polystenidea)
fore wing stigma usually elongate, vein r arising before (basally of) midpoint of stigma (compare with Polystenidea wings)
vein r-m absent (thus no 2nd submarginal cell) (see above image). (For vein r-m present, 2nd submarginal cell present, click here). (Absence of 2nd submarginal cell distinguishes this genus from Stiropius)
4th metasomal tergite without a semicircular groove or depression (Shaw, S.R. 1997. In: Subfamily Rogadinae(2))
Range
Texas, Mexico, Peru.
Food
larvae feed on larvae of Lyonetiidae.
Life Cycle
larval koinobiont endoparasitoids. As with other rogadines, Stiropius larvae mummify the host when they finish feeding on it and kill it, and pupate inside the mummy.
Remarks
Choreborogas is sister species to Polystenidea and falls within the Stiropius genus-group within Rogadinae. See remarks under Stiropius
See Also
Polystenidea and Stiropius
Print References
Whitfield, J.B. 1990. Phylogenetic review of the Stiropius group of genera (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae), with description of a new Neotropical genus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 92: 36-43. [page author's note: the new genus is Choreborogas.]
Whitfield, J.B. 1988. Revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Stiropius Cameron (=Bucculatriplex Auct.) with a description of a new related genus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Systematic Entomology 13: 373-385. (Key to species)
Internet References
Whitfield, J.B. 1990. Phylogenetic review of the Stiropius group of genera (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae), with description of a new Neotropical genus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 92: 36-43.
Works Cited
1.A Revision of the Tetrasphaeropyx Ashm. Lineage of the Genus Aleiodes Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae)
Fortier, Joseph C. 2009. Magnolia Press.
2.Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)
Wharton, R.A., P.M. Marsh, M.J. Sharkey (Eds). 1997. International Society of Hymenopterists.
Contributed by Joe on 15 May, 2015 - 2:48pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon
Last updated 14 August, 2023 - 7:36pm

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