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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) » Acampsohelconinae » Urosigalphus

Genus Urosigalphus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Acampsohelconinae
Genus Urosigalphus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Had previously been placed under Blacinae and Helconinae tribe Brachistini.(1)(2)
Explanation of Names
Urosigalphus Ashmead, 1889
Numbers
36 spp. in 5 subgenera in our area.(3) About 100 species, plus many undescribed Neotropical species.(1). Arctos lists 86 species.
Size
2-4 mm
Identification
Metasomal segments 1 and 2 fused, metasoma carapace-like(1)

Outer claw of hind leg much larger than inner claw.(1)
Fore wing venation: (1) 2cu-a absent; (2) length vein 1CUa about equal to length vein 1CUb.(1)
Range
New World.
Food
Larvae are parasites of beetles in Curculionidae & Bruchinae (Chrysomelidae)(1)
Life Cycle
Adults emerge from the larval stage of hosts. Possibly egg-larval parasitoids.
Print References
Arias-Penna, D.C. 2007. New geographical records of the genus Urosigasphus Ashmead 1889 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Helconinae) for Colombia. Boletin del Museo de Entomologia de la Universidad del Valle 8(1): 1-9. (Full text)
Cushman, R.A. 1911. Notes on the host plants and parasites of some North American Bruchidae. Journal of Economic Entomology 4(6): 489-509. (Full text)
Sharkey, Michael J. 1997. Subfamily Helconinae. in Wharton, Robert A.; Marsh, Paul M.; Sharkey, Michael J. (eds.). Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Washington, D.C.: The International Society of Hymenopterists. p. 261-272.(1)
Internet References
ARCTOS. 2009. Urosigalphus. Arctos Collaborative Collection Management Solution. (Accessed 2015)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Revision of the genus Canalicephalus Gibson and the recognition of the Acampsohelconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as extant
Achterberg, C. van. 2002. Zoologische Mededelingen 76 (20).
3.Marsh, Paul M. Braconidae catalog (online 2009) — in Krombein et al. (1979) Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Contributed by v belov on 23 February, 2010 - 11:23am
Additional contributions by josephfortier, Beatriz Moisset, PaleoJon
Last updated 12 April, 2024 - 3:16am

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