Chalcis (wasp)
| Chalcis | |
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| Chalcis biguttata Spinola, 1808. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Chalcidoidea |
| Family: | Chalcididae |
| Subfamily: | Chalcidinae |
| Genus: | Chalcis Fabricius, 1787 |
| Type species | |
| Chalcis sispes (Linnaeus, 1761)
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Chalcis is a wasp genus in the subfamily Chalcidinae.[1]
Species
[edit]According to waspweb.org, there are 19 species in the Afrotropics :[2]
- Chalcis amphilochus Walker, 1846 (Sierra Leone)
- Chalcis bicolor Bingham, 1902 (Zimbabwe)
- Chalcis capensis Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)
- Chalcis ferox Kieffer, 1905 (Madagascar)
- Chalcis flavitarsis Kieffer, 1905 (Madagascar)
- Chalcis fuscus Schmitz, 1946 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Chalcis melanogastra Cameron, 1907 (South Africa)
- Chalcis melanospila Cameron, 1907 (South Africa)
- Chalcis microlinea Walker, 1862 (South Africa)
- Chalcis natalensis Cameron, 1907 (South Africa)
- Chalcis polyctor Walker, 1841 (South Africa)
- Chalcis pymi Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)
- Chalcis resus Walker, 1850 (Sierra Leone)
- Chalcis rotundata Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)
- Chalcis saussurei Kieffer, 1905 (Madagascar)
- Chalcis spilopus Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)
- Chalcis transvaalensis Cameron, 1911 (South Africa)
- Chalcis vera Boucek, 1974 (Namibia, South Africa)
- Chalcis visellus Walker, 1846 (Sierra Leone)
References
[edit]- ^ Cruaud, Astrid; Delvare, Gérard; Nidelet, Sabine; Sauné, Laure; Ratnasingham, Sujeevan; Chartois, Marguerite; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Gates, Michael; Brady, Seán G.; Faure, Sariana; van Noort, Simon; Rossi, Jean-Pierre; Rasplus, Jean-Yves (2020). "Ultra-Conserved Elements and morphology reciprocally illuminate conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses in Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)" (PDF). Cladistics. 37 (1): 1–35. doi:10.1111/cla.12416. PMID 34478176.
- ^ waspweb.org Archived October 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
[edit]- Boucek, Z. 1974, On some Chalcididae and Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera), with descriptions of new genera and species from Africa and one species from Asia. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 37(2): 327-330.
- Cameron, P. 1905, On the Hymenoptera of the Albany Museum. (Third paper) Record of the Albany Museum 1: 297-314.
- Cameron, P. 1907, Descriptions of species of parasitic Hymenoptera, chiefly in the collections of the South African Museum, Cape Town. (Second paper) Annals of the South African Museum 5: 203-225.
- Fabricius, J.C. 1787, Mantissa Insectorum sistens species nuper detectas 1:272 Copenhagen Gibson A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570–655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.
- Kieffer, J.J. 1905, Neue Eucharinae und Chalcidinae. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 49:262
- Schmitz, G. 1946, Chalcididae de l'Afrique Central. Exploration du Parc National Albert, Mission G.F. de Witte Fas. 48:54 Congo Belge, Inst. Parcs. Nat. Albert, Mission G.F. de Witte.