Conura Spinola, 1837

Taxonomy

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae: Chalcidinae

Diagnosis

Antennae 12 segmented.
Metasoma short, second tergite occupying half of the metasoma.
Hind femora very minutely denticulate beneath.

Biology / Hosts

Coleoptera: Buprestidae, Chrysomelidae, Coccinellidae and Curculionidae; Diptera: Syrphidae; Hymenoptera: Argidae; Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae, Elachistidae, Gelechiidae, Gracillariidae, Lycaenidae, Lyonetiidae, Noctuidae, Notodontidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Psychidae, Pyralidae, Saturniidae, Sesiidae, Sphingidae, Tineidae, Tischeriidae, Tortricidae, and Yponomeutidae.

Distribution

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, (including West Indies), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, India, Mexico, Neotropical, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, United States of America, and Venezuela (Noyes, 2016).

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies of the superfamily Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 1(4) pp. 255.
Noyes, J.S. (2016). Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids (accessed on 28/9/2016).
Spinola, M. 1837. Conure. Conura. Spinola. Magasin de Zoologie IX(180) :1-2.

Photo credit

Dr. J. Poorani, Principal Scientist, NRCB, Trichy, Tamil Nadu.