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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) » Cheloninae » Phanerotoma

Genus Phanerotoma

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · 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 Cheloninae

Genus Phanerotoma

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phanerotoma thapsina Walley, 1951 is transferred as the type species of Pseudophanerotoma(1)

Explanation of Names

Phanerotoma Wesmael, 1838

Numbers

~22 spp. in our area (2) (with at least 6 spp. in central Texas(3))

Identification

See Cheloninae identification

True Phanerotoma have exactly 23 antennomeres (21 flagellomeres + pedicel & scape) in both sexes,(1) with the sole exception of the eastern Palearctic potanini-group.

Wing venation

Body morphology

Range

Cosmopolitan

Habitat

Any vegetated habitat in which concealed-feeding Lepidoptera are found. Phanerotoma tend to be more abundant in arid habitats compared to other chelonines, or during dry seasons. (Shaw, S.R. 1997. Subfamily Cheloninae. In: (4))

Season

Dry season

Food

Parasitoids (solitary endoparasitic koinobionts) of Lepidoptera (primarily Pyralidae and Tortricidae; have also been reared from Gelechiidae)

Life Cycle

solitary koinobiont egg-larval endoparasitoids

Works Cited

1.	A taxonomic review of the parasitoid wasp genera Furcidentia Zettel and Pseudophanerotoma Zettel from the Neotropics... Rebecca N. Kittel. 2018. Zootaxa 4486 (2): 146-160.

2.	Nomina Insecta Nearctica Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.

3.	Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat. Quinn, M.A. 2000. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp.

4.	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 v belov on 9 December, 2009 - 4:16pm
Additional contributions by josephfortier, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, PaleoJon
Last updated 10 November, 2022 - 5:33am

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