Author: C. van AchterbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9789073239159
Category : Braconidae
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Illustrated Key to the Subfamilies of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea)
Author: C. van AchterbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9789073239159
Category : Braconidae
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Identifying British Insects and Arachnids
Author: Peter Charles BarnardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521632416
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Essential guide to the specialist literature for the identification of British insects and arachnids.
Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)
Author: Paul DangerfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692944820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
This multi authored identification manual presents illustrated keys to the 34 subfamilies and 404 genera of the family Braconidae from the New World. Information about all New World genera described up to 1994 is included which represents an expanded and updated version of the information published in the 1987 Nearctic manual by Marsh, et. al. The manual consists of 37 chapters by world authorities plus an index to generic names including subgenera and synonyms, and an appendix listing all the New World genera alphabetically by subfamily. The first chapter provides an introduction including a review of braconid biology, literature, classification, biogeography, collection and curation, and a discussion of the manual format. The second chapter is an extensive illustrated discussion of braconid morphology and terminologies used in the keys. The third chapter is a fully illustrated key to the New World subfamilies of the Braconidae. The New World subfamilies are then presented separately in the remaining 34 chapters. For each, a key to the New World genera is included. Each of these keys is annotated to include estimated number of species, distribution, hosts, and critical references for each genus. Each subfamily chapter is extensively illustrated and the entire manual contains over 750 line drawings and scanning electron micrographs.This is the second edition of the sold out book and it contains separate notes on updates to all braconid subfamilies.
Phylogeny of the Subfamilies of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea)
Author: Donald L. J. QuickePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Braconidae
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Revision of the subfamily Opiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Hunan (China), including thirty-six new species and two new genera
Author: Xi-Ying LiPublisher: PenSoft Publishers LTD
ISBN: 9546426717
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The large subfamily Opiinae (Braconidae), with about 2,000 valid species is a common group containing mainly small (2-5 mm) parasitoid wasps of mainly mining or fruit-infesting dipterous larvae. Several species are potentially of importance for biocontrol of dipterous pests, and some have been used successfully. For the first time the opiine fauna of a large area is fully illustrated by colour photographs and all known species are keyed. Thirty-six new species (out of 42) and two new gen-era are described from Hunan province (Oriental China). Thirty species have been sequenced and the results are discussed. In additionÿ three species are re-named and 27 new combinations are proposed.
Hymenoptera. Ichneumonoidea
Author: James F. PerkinsThe Braconid and Ichneumonid Parasitoid Wasps
Author: Donald L. J. QuickePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118907051
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Ichneumonoidea is a vast and important superfamily of parasitic wasps, with some 60,000 described species and estimated numbers far higher, especially for small-bodied tropical taxa. The superfamily comprises two cosmopolitan families - Braconidae and Ichneumonidae - that have largely attracted separate groups of researchers, and this, to a considerable extent, has meant that understanding of their adaptive features has often been considered in isolation. This book considers both families, highlighting similarities and differences in their adaptations. The classification of the whole of the Ichneumonoidea, along with most other insect orders, has been plagued by typology whereby undue importance has been attributed to particular characters in defining groups. Typology is a common disease of traditional taxonomy such that, until recently, quite a lot of taxa have been associated with the wrong higher clades. The sheer size of the group, and until the last 30 or so years, lack of accessible identification materials, has been a further impediment to research on all but a handful of ‘lab rat’ species usually cultured initially because of their potential in biological control. New evidence, largely in the form of molecular data, have shown that many morphological, behavioural, physiological and anatomical characters associated with basic life history features, specifically whether wasps are ecto- or endoparasitic, or idiobiont or koinobiont, can be grossly misleading in terms of the phylogeny they suggest. This book shows how, with better supported phylogenetic hypotheses entomologists can understand far more about the ways natural selection is acting upon them. This new book also focuses on this superfamily with which the author has great familiarity and provides a detailed coverage of each subfamily, emphasising anatomy, taxonomy and systematics, biology, as well as pointing out the importance and research potential of each group. Fossil taxa are included and it also has sections on biogeography, global species richness, culturing and rearing and preparing specimens for taxonomic study. The book highlights areas where research might be particularly rewarding and suggests systems/groups that need investigation. The author provides a large compendium of references to original research on each group. This book is an essential workmate for all postgraduates and researchers working on ichneumonoid or other parasitic wasps worldwide. It will stand as a reference book for a good number of years, and while rapid advances in various fields such as genomics and host physiological interactions will lead to new information, as an overall synthesis of the current state it will stay relevant for a long time.
Revision of the Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of Vietnam, with the description of forty-two new species and three new genera
Author: Cornelis Van AchterbergPublisher: PenSoft Publishers LTD
ISBN: 9546425583
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
For the first time the subfamily Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Vietnam is revised. Two new genera are described and a pictorial key to the genera of Vietnam and neighbouring countries is given. Forty-two new species (out of 65) are described and all species (except one) are illustrated by colour photographs. Thirteen species are newly recorded for Vietnam; in addition 8 new synonyms and 40 new combinations are proposed.
Hymenoptera Ichneumonoidea Ichneumonidae, Key to Subfamilies and Ichneumoninae II, Alomyinae, Agriotypinae and Lycorininae
Author: J. F. PerkinsHymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Ichneumonidae
Author: J. F. PerkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymenoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description