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Distatrix

Distatrix is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are more than 30 described species in Distatrix, found throughout most of the world.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Braconidae
Subfamily: Microgastrinae
Genus: Distatrix
Mason, 1981

Distatrix is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are more than 30 described species in Distatrix, found throughout most of the world.12

Species

These 33 species belong to the genus Distatrix:

  • Distatrix anthedon (Nixon, 1965)
  • Distatrix antirrheae Whitfield & Grinter, 2009
  • Distatrix belliger (Wilkinson, 1929)
  • Distatrix carolinae Fernández-Triana, 2010
  • Distatrix cerales (Nixon, 1965)
  • Distatrix cuspidalis (de Saeger, 1944)
  • Distatrix euproctidis (Ullyett, 1946)
  • Distatrix flava (Fernandez-Triana & van Achterberg, 2017)
  • Distatrix formosa (Wesmael, 1837)
  • Distatrix geometrivora (de Saeger, 1944)
  • Distatrix gratiosa (Wilkinson, 1930)
  • Distatrix iglesiasi (Viereck, 1913)
  • Distatrix iraklii (Kotenko, 1986)
  • Distatrix loretta Grinter, 2009
  • Distatrix maia (Nixon, 1965)
  • Distatrix malloi (Blanchard, 1942)
  • Distatrix pallidocinctus (Gahan, 1918)
  • Distatrix pandora Grinter, 2019
  • Distatrix papilionis (Viereck, 1912)
  • Distatrix pitillaensis Grinter, 2009
  • Distatrix pompelon (Nixon, 1965)
  • Distatrix sancus (Nixon, 1965)
  • Distatrix simulissima (de Saeger, 1944)
  • Distatrix solanae Whitfield, 1996
  • Distatrix teapae (Nixon, 1965)
  • Distatrix tookei (Shenefelt, 1972)
  • Distatrix tormina (Nixon, 1965)
  • Distatrix ugandaensis (Gahan, 1918)
  • Distatrix vigilis Grinter, 2009
  • Distatrix xanadon Grinter, 2009
  • Distatrix yemenitica van Achterberg & Fernandez-Triana, 2017
  • Distatrix yunae Rousse & Gupta, 2013
References

References

  1. Fernandez-Triana, Jose; Shaw, Mark R.; Boudreault, Caroline; Beaudin, Melanie; et al. (2020). "Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)". ZooKeys (920): 1–1089. Bibcode:2020ZooK..920....1F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.920.39128. PMC 7197271. PMID 32390740.
  2. Rousse; Gupta (2013). "Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local species, including 18 new taxa and a key to species". Zootaxa. 3616 (6): 501–547. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.1. PMID 24758826.
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