Solenura
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| Solenura ania, female from China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Lyciscidae |
| Genus: | Westwood, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| Solenura telescopica Westwood, 1868
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Solenura is a genus of parasitic chalcidoid wasps with species found around the world. Males and females are dimorphic with females having a long ovipositor used for inserting the eggs into beetle larvae boring inside dead wood. Males are very rarely seen.[1] It was sometimes placed within the family Pteromalidae[2] and is now placed within the family Lyciscidae[3][4] although it is found to be closely related to the genera Heydenia, Ditropinotella and Grooca.[5]
Species in the genus include:
- Solenura carinatus (Brues, 1907)
- Solenura fuscoaenea Masi, 1943
- Solenura nigra (Walker, 1872)
- Solenura ania (Walker, 1846)
- Solenura feretrius (Walker, 1846)
- Solenura keralensis (Narendran, 1992)
References
- ^ Cao, Liangming; Cui, Jianxin; Wang, Xiaoyi; Wang, Guisen; Yang, Zhongqi (2020). "First description of the male of Solenura ania (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a giant pteromalid parasitoid of Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann), with special reference to its sexual dimorphism". Biodiversity Data Journal. 8. doi:10.3897/BDJ.8.e54961. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 7406544. PMID 32821212.
- ^ Farooqi, S. I.; Subba Rao, B. R. (1986-01-01). "Family Pteromalidae". Oriental Insects. 20 (1): 279–306. doi:10.1080/00305316.1986.10433733. ISSN 0030-5316.
- ^ Gibson, Gary A.P. (2025-02-28), Heraty, John; Woolley, James (eds.), "Lyciscidae", Chalcidoidea of the World, GB: CABI, pp. 452–461, doi:10.1079/9781800623545.0038, ISBN 978-1-80062-352-1, retrieved 2025-07-10
- ^ Burks, Roger; Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan; Fusu, Lucian; Heraty, John M.; Janšta, Petr; Heydon, Steve; Papilloud, Natalie Dale-Skey; Peters, Ralph S.; Tselikh, Ekaterina V.; Woolley, James B.; van Noort, Simon; Baur, Hannes; Cruaud, Astrid; Darling, Christopher; Haas, Michael (2022). "From hell's heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 94: 13–88. doi:10.3897/jhr.94.94263. ISSN 1314-2607.
- ^ Cruaud, Astrid; Rasplus, Jean-Yves; Zhang, Junxia; Burks, Roger; Delvare, Gérard; Fusu, Lucian; Gumovsky, Alex; Huber, John T.; Janšta, Petr; Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan; Noyes, John S.; van Noort, Simon; Baker, Austin; Böhmová, Julie; Baur, Hannes (2024). "The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps". Cladistics. 40 (1): 34–63. doi:10.1111/cla.12561. ISSN 0748-3007. PMID 37919831.