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Acrotaphus

Acrotaphus is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. There are 27 described species in the genus. They are parasitoids of spiders in the families Araneidae and Tetragnathidae.

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Acrotaphus
Acrotaphus wiltii female
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Tribe: Ephialtini
Genus: Acrotaphus
Townes & Townes, 1960

Acrotaphus is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae.1 There are 27 described species in the genus.23 They are parasitoids of spiders in the families Araneidae and Tetragnathidae.4

Species

These 27 species belong to the genus Acrotaphus:2

  • Acrotaphus amajari (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus amazonicus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus bodoquenaensis (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus chedelae (Gauld, 1991)
  • Acrotaphus cuzconus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus dolichopus (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus fasciatus (Brulle, 1846)
  • Acrotaphus fascipennis (Cresson, 1865)
  • Acrotaphus ferruginosus (Cresson, 1865)
  • Acrotaphus franklini (Gauld, 1991)
  • Acrotaphus fuscipennis (Cresson, 1865)
  • Acrotaphus homeofranklini (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus jackiechani (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus japi (Higa & Penteado-Dias, 2019)5
  • Arcotaphus kourou (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus latifasciatus (Cameron, 1911)
  • Acrotaphus mexicanus (Cameron, 1886)
  • Acrotaphus micrus (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus monotaenius (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus nambilloensis (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus pseudoamazonicus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus pseudomexicanus (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron, 1886)
  • Acrotaphus venezuelanus (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus wagnerianae (Pádua, 2020)3
  • Acrotaphus wiltii (Cresson, 1870)1
  • Acrotaphus zampieronae (Pádua, 2020)
  • Acrotaphus fasciatus female
    Acrotaphus fasciatus female
  • Acrotaphus fuscipennis male
    Acrotaphus fuscipennis male
  • Acrotaphus latifasciatus female
    Acrotaphus latifasciatus female
  • Acrotaphus tibialis female
    Acrotaphus tibialis female
  • Acrotaphus wiltii female
    Acrotaphus wiltii female
References

References

  1. Carlson, Robert W. (1979). "Ichneumonidae". In Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D. (eds.). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Vol. 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 385–386. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  2. Pádua, Diego G.; Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.; Monteiro, Ricardo F.; Oliveira, Marcio L. (January 19, 2020). "Review of the New World genus Acrotaphus Townes, 1960 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae), with descriptions of fifteen new species". Zootaxa. 4719 (1): 1–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4719.1.1. PMID 32230647. S2CID 212927763.
  3. Pádua, Diego G.; Kloss, Thiago G. (July 9, 2020). "A new species of Acrotaphus Townes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from the Brazilian Amazon, with notes on its host spider behavioral modification". Zootaxa. 4810 (1): 161–168. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4810.1.10.
  4. Gauld, Ian D.; Dubois, Jacques (2006-03-29). "Phylogeny of the Polysphincta group of genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Pimplinae): a taxonomic revision of spider ectoparasitoids". Systematic Entomology. 31 (3). Wiley: 529–564. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00334.x. ISSN 0307-6970.
  5. P. T. Higa; A. M. Penteado-Dias (May 20, 2019). "Altitudinal effects on diversity of Pimplinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Southeast Brazil and description of new species". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 80 (2): Article. doi:10.1590/1519-6984.210438. PMID 31116298.