The Eastern Palaearctic parasitic wasps of the genus Spilomicrus Westwood, 1832 (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae)
Author
Chemyreva, V. G.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2018
2018-04-16
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.357.1
journal article
10.25221/fee.357.1
2713-2196
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Genus
Spilomicrus
Westwood, 1832
Spilomicrus
Westwood, 1832: 129
.
Type
species:
Spilomicrus
stigmaticalis
Westwood, 1832, by monotypy.
NOTES
. All members of this genus are small to medium-sized parasitoids (1.0–
4.5 mm
) with dark, smooth and shining body.
Spilomicrus
can be recognized using the keys to genera of the Eastern Palaearctic (Kozlov, 1995) and Oriental region
(Rajmohana, 2006). Synonymy of the genus follows Johnson (1992) and Notton
(2014). The information about host-parasitoid relationships of majority
Spilomicrus
species
is absent. The main hosts are the parasitoids of pupae of different Diptera families, rarely ‒ the larvae of the coleopteran family
Staphylinidae
(Hoffmeister,
1989; Masner, 1991; Notton, 1999).