Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ichneumonidae

Posted by Jan Willem on 01-05-2006 10:29
#17

Hi,

I asked Kees van Achterberg (certainly a specialist in Braconidae) if he could say anything more about the species. He wrote:

The small one is a Spathius (probably S. rubidus (Rossi)); the other one a Helcon. So both are indeed Braconidae.


Spathius belongs to the subfamily Doryctinae and Helcon to the subfamily Helconinae.

On the internet I found that Spathius rubidus has been reported as a parasite Anobium beetles (Anobiidae).

Jan Willem