Vanhornia

Vanhornia
Vanhornia eucnemidarum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Infraorder: Proctotrupomorpha
Superfamily: Proctotrupoidea
Family:
Crawford, 1909
Genus:
Crawford, 1909
Synonyms

Sinicivanhornia He & Chu, 1990[1]

Vanhornia is a genus of parasitic wasps. It is the only member of the family Vanhorniidae within the Proctotrupoidea. Of the four known species, V. eucnemidarum (type) is widespread across North America, V. leileri is widespread across the Palearctic, V. quizhouensis is found in South China and Thailand, and V. yurii is found in Northeast Asia. Members of Vanhornia are parasitoids on beetles belonging to the family Eucnemidae.[2]

Species

  • Vanhornia eucnemidarum Crawford, 1909
  • Vanhornia leileri Hedqvist, 1976
  • Vanhornia quizhouensis (He & Chu 1990)
  • Vanhornia yurii Timokhov & Belokobylskij, 2020

References

  1. ^ Kozlove, M.A. (1998) Family Vanhorniidae. In: A Key to Insects of the Russian Far East, Vol. 4, Part 3, pp. 675-677 (in Russian)
  2. ^ Timokhov, Alexander V.; Belokobylskij, Sergey A. (2020-10-30). "Review of the rare genus Vanhornia Crawford, 1909 (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Vanhorniidae) with description of a new species from the Russian Far East". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 79: 57–76. doi:10.3897/jhr.79.56481. ISSN 1314-2607.