Genus Trichopria

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited

Tiny wasp with fuzzy antennae - Trichopria

tiny wasp with knobby antennae - Trichopria

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 Diaprioidea

Family Diapriidae

Subfamily Diapriinae

Tribe Diapriini

Genus Trichopria

Explanation of Names

Trichopria Ashmead 1893

Numbers

the largest genus of the Diapriinae in the New World; at present only a fragment of actual size of the genus is known, with most species still undescribed(1); 58 described species in the genus

Range

worldwide, incl. numerous spp. in both Nearctic and Neotropic regions(1)

Habitat

Several species were found in ant nests; some are aquatic or semiaquatic in habits(1)

Food

solitary or gregarious parasitoids of flies, including Tephritidae, Tachinidae, Syrphidae, Ephydridae, Stratiomyidae, Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae, Drosophilidae, Glossonidae, Tabanidae, Chloropidae, Agromyzidae, and Sciomyzidae; one species is a parasitoid of Psephenidae (Coleoptera)(2)(1)

Works Cited

1.	The genera of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) in the New World Masner L., García J.L. 2002. Bull. AMNH 268: 1‒138.

2.	Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.

Contributed by tom murray on 17 September, 2007 - 9:51pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 25 August, 2012 - 1:12pm

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