Madagascar

There are 63 species of Microgastrinae recorded from Madagascar (Yu et al. 2012), but that is only a fraction of the actual diversity. Thanks to Bob Zuparko (http://essig.berkeley.edu/about/zuparko.shtml), a significant material of Microgastrinae wasps collected in Madagascar -and belonging to the California Academy of Sciences- has been loaned to one of us (Jose Fernandez-Triana, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa) and it is currently under study. We will be posting here our results as more species are being discovered.

List of species [Last Update, May 5, 2014]:

1. Apanteles acutissimus Granger, 1949
2. Apanteles aggestus Granger, 1949
3. Apanteles angulatus Granger, 1949
4. Apanteles antsirabensis Granger, 1949
5. Apanteles atrocephalus Granger, 1949
6. Apanteles bordagei Giard, 1902
7. Apanteles borocerae Granger, 1949
8. Apanteles cingulicornis Granger, 1949
9. Apanteles curticornis Granger, 1949
10. Apanteles curvicaudatus Granger, 1949
11. Apanteles decaryi Granger, 1949
12. Apanteles decoloratus Granger, 1949
13. Apanteles delphinensis Granger, 1949
14. Apanteles discretus Szépligeti, 1914
15. Apanteles ficus Granger, 1949
16. Apanteles fulvigaster Granger, 1949
17. Apanteles hyalinatus Granger, 1949
18. Apanteles hypopygialis Granger, 1949
19. Apanteles insignicaudatus Granger, 1949
20. Apanteles ivondroensis Granger, 1949
21. Apanteles levigaster Granger, 1949
22. Apanteles madecassus Granger, 1949
23. Apanteles medioexcavatus Granger, 1949
24. Apanteles medioimpressus Granger, 1949
25. Apanteles nigrofemoratus Granger, 1949
26. Apanteles oppidicola Granger, 1949
27. Apanteles punctatissimus Granger, 1949
28. Apanteles seyrigi Wilkinson, 1936
29. Apanteles speciosissimus Granger, 1949
30. Apanteles sphingivorus Granger, 1949
31. Apanteles subpunctatus Granger, 1949
32. Apanteles subrugosus Granger, 1949
33. Apanteles tricoloripes Granger, 1949
34. Cotesia chrysippi (Viereck, 1911)
35. Cotesia flavipes Cameron, 1891
36. Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday, 1834)
37. Cotesia sesamiae (Cameron, 1906)
38. Diolcogaster basimacula (Cameron, 1905)
39. Diolcogaster curticornis (Granger, 1949)
40. Distatrix belligra (Wilkinson, 1929)
41. Fornicia microcephala Granger, 1949
42. Fornicia seyrigi Granger, 1949
43. Microgaster ambositrensis Granger, 1949
44. Microgaster annulata Granger, 1949
45. Microgaster bekilyensis Granger, 1949
46. Microgaster cariniger Granger, 1949
47. Microgaster cingulata Granger, 1949
48. Microgaster flavofacialis Granger, 1949
49. Microgaster grangeri Shenefelt, 1973
50. Microgaster mediosulcata Granger, 1949
51. Microgaster rufithorax Granger, 1949
52. Microgaster rufotestacea Granger, 1949
53. Microgaster seyrigi Granger, 1949
54. Microgaster subtorquata Granger, 1949
55. Microgaster torquatiger Granger, 1949
56. Microgaster tristiculus Granger, 1949
57. Microplitis hova Granger, 1949
58. Microplitis subsulcatus Granger, 1949
59. Protapanteles ankaratrensis (Granger, 1949)
60. Protapanteles areatus (Granger, 1949)
61. Protapanteles flavotorquatus (Granger, 1949)
62. Protapanteles geometrae (Granger, 1949)
63. Protapanteles menuthias (Wilkinson, 1935)

In addition to the list above, we have seen specimens of the genera Choeras, Distatrix, Nyereria and Wilkinsonellus,

A total of 265 specimens have so far been sampled for DNA barcodes, but only 92 have rendered some sequence. Below is the link to a pdf file with a Neighbor-Joining tree (K2P) of the 87 available sequences with more than 200 base pairs. Those 87 sequences represent 70 species of Microgastrinae, indicating that the actual diversity of species will be much higher.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith