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Genus Promicrogaster

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 Microgastrinae

Genus Promicrogaster

Explanation of Names

Authors: Brues & Richardson

Remarks

Largely unknown and uncommon; mostly Neotropical. Probably solitary on microlepidoptera; some have been reared from bracket fungi. [note from Joseph Fortier]

Print References

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Works Cited

1.	Revision of the North American species of Promicrogaster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with an updated key to ... Jose Fernandez-Triana. 2019. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 70: 89-112.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 6 March, 2014 - 1:09pm
Additional contributions by Edward Ruden
Last updated 14 July, 2019 - 10:01am

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