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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) » Alysiinae » Alysiini » Alysiasta

Genus Alysiasta

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References
Braconidae, dorsal - Alysiasta - female Braconidae, ventral - Alysiasta - female Braconidae, ventralX - Alysiasta - female
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 Alysiinae
Tribe Alysiini
Genus Alysiasta
Numbers
10 species as of 2014
Size
2-4 mm
Identification
Presence of fore wing r-m vein, sometimes faint; 3-toothed mandible with well defined clefts between teeth; metasomal tergites smooth, unsculptured; fore wing vein RS meeting vein R1 before the wing apex.
Range
USA to Panama
Food
Reared from dung-breeding flies including Sarcophagidae.
Print References
Wharton, R.A. 1980. Review of New World Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with discussion of generic relationships with the tribe. University of California Publications in Entomology 88:1-104.

Wharton, R.A. 1984. Biology of the Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), parasitoids of cylorrhaphous Diptera. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Monograph 11:1-39.

Wharton, R.A. 1997. Subfamily Alysiinae. In: Wharton, R. A., P. M. Marsh, and M. J. Sharkey (eds). 1997. Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera). The International Society of Hymenopterists. Washington DC.
Internet References
Animal Diversity Web: Alysiasta
Contributed by Joe on 19 February, 2015 - 6:02pm

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