Trisecodes
Trisecodes is a genus of parasitic chalcid wasps of the family Systasidae.[2] The genus was originally placed in Eulophidae, based on a number of morphological features,[1] but molecular evidence suggests that the genus is more closely related to Systasis and Semiotellus.[3] The type species (Trisecodes agromyzae) is a parasitoid of a range of Agromyzid leaf-mining flies.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Systasidae |
| Genus: | Trisecodes Delvare and LaSalle, 2000[1] |
| Type species | |
| Trisecodes agromyzae Delvare and LaSalle, 2000 | |
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There are two known species:
- Trisecodes agromyzae from Belize, Costa Rica and Guadeloupe;[1][4] and
- Trisecodes africanum from Cameroon, Guinea and Uganda.[5][4]
Description
These are small (0.6-0.85 mm long), dark wasps. Their tarsi have only three segments. Each antenna has three short funicular segments and a clava with two segments.[5]
References
- Delvare, G., & Lasalle, J. (2000). Trisecodes gen. n.,(Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Entedoninae), the first eulophid with three tarsal segments. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 9(2), 305-312. BHL PDF
- Roger A. Burks; Mircea-Dan Mitroiu; Lucian Fusu; et al. (20 December 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 1070-9428. Wikidata Q115923766.
- Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J. Y., Zhang, J., Burks, R., Delvare, G., Fusu, L., ... & Heraty, J. M. (2022). The Chalcidoidea bush of life–a massive radiation blurred by mutational saturation. bioRxiv, 2022-09. DOI PDF
- Noyes, J.S. (March 2019). "Universal Chalcidoidea Database". The Natural History Museum. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- Gumovsky, A. (2014). A new species of Trisecodes from the Afrotropics (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae). Zootaxa, 3852(5), 553-561. DOI PDF
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