A review of the genera and species of Hymenoptera Parasitica and Chrysidoidea reported so far from Reunion Island is provided with host information. Data presented here is based on a review of the existing literature by the authors. The list includes: (1) 156 species of Ichneumonoidea belonging to 65 genera and 25 subfamilies (Braconidae: Agathidinae, Alysiinae, Aphidiinae, Braconinae, Charmont...

Phylogenetic relationships among the Braconidae have been a source of contention, debate, and uncertainty for many years. This uncertainty has been evident in the conXicting relationships and lack of resolution obtained from various morphological (van Achterberg, 1984; Quicke and van Achterberg, 1990; Wharton et al., 1992) and molecular datasets (Dowton et al., 1998; Belshaw et al., 1998; Dowto...

Syconia of figs (Moraceae: Ficus spp.) harbour many wasp species, mostly belonging to several genera of chalcidoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). In contrast, only two genera of Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) with a few known species are found in syconia belonging to the subgenus Urostigma. The braconid fig wasps have an infrequent occurrence with low population density and are rarely ...

Studying material from decayed fruits, dung, carrion, “sweeping” vegetation, Malaise, Moericke and light traps from Brazilian localities, four Alysiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) species were found: Aphaereta confusa Wharton, 1994; Idiasta (Idiasta) delicata (Papp, 1969); Gnathopleura astarte (Haliday, 1838) and G. semirufa (Brullé, 1846) specimens. All these species have Neotropical distributi...

Our understanding of the critical shift in life history among insect parasitoids from ectoparasitism to endoparasitism is hindered by the fact that this particular life history trait is not known for many phylogenetically important taxa. One method of coping with this problem is to seek correlations between the ovipositor structure and this life history trait among taxa whose life history is kn...

The enormous cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) sequence database being assembled from the various DNA barcoding projects as well as from independent phylogenetic studies constitutes an almost unprecedented amount of data for molecular systematics, in addition to its role in species identification and discovery. As part of a study of the potential of this gene fragment to improve the accuracy o...

Fifteen Braconidae species were collected from Bingol, Diyarbakır, Iğdır and Kars provinces between 2016 2021. Collection localities, hosts, zoogeographic regions distribution of the are also provided.