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Genus Helorus

Helorus anomalipes (syn. paradoxus) - Helorus anomalipes - female Procto - Helorus ruficornis Wasp - Helorus ruficornis - female Wasp - Helorus ruficornis Small Thin Waist Wasp - Helorus anomalipes Small Thin Waist Wasp - Helorus anomalipes Small Thin Waist Wasp - Helorus anomalipes Small Threadwaisted Wasp - Lateral - Helorus
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 Proctotrupoidea
Family Heloridae
Genus Helorus
Explanation of Names
Helorus Latreille 1802
Numbers
2 spp. in our area (both holarctic), 18 total(1)
Size
4‒5 mm(2)
Identification
to separate our spp.(3):
Pterostigma 2.9‒3.6× as long as wide. T1 raised dorso-basally. Antennae black. =>H. anomalipes
Pterostigma 2.1‒2.5× as long as wide. T1 not raised dorso-basally. Antennae brownish. =>H. ruficornis
Range
worldwide(1); in NA, most commonly found in ne.US (MI‒ME‒VA), the PNW, and California(2)
Food
hosts: Chrysopidae (Neuroptera)(2)
See Also
Vanhorniidae
Works Cited
1.A remarkable record of little-known parasitoid wasp Helorus striolatus (Hymenoptera: Heloridae) from Türkiye...
Can İ. 2022. Sakarya Univ. J. Sci. 26: 2052‒2058.
2.A revision of the Heloridae (Hymenoptera)
Townes H. 1977. Contrib. AEI 15(2): 1‒12.
3.European species of the genus Helorus Latreille (Hym.: Heloridae), with description of a new species from Sulawesi (Indonesia)
Van Achterberg C. 2006. Zool. Meded. 80: 1‒12.
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 13 December, 2007 - 10:13pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 27 November, 2023 - 8:46am

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