Hockeria
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chalcididae
Name
Hockeria Walker, 1834 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Hockeria Walker, 1834: 21, 34. Type species: Hockeria bifasciata Walker; indirectly proposed by Kerrich and Menon 1949[1].
- Stomatoceras Kirby, 1883: 54, 62. Type species: Halticella liberator Walker, by original designation. (Synonymised with Hockeria Walker by Bouček 1988b[2]).
- Temnata Cameron, 1897: 42. Type species: Temnata maculipennis Cameron, by monotypy. (Synonymised with Hockeria Walker by Narendran 1989[3]).
- Centrochalcis Cameron, 1905: 230. Type species: Centrochalcis octodentata Cameron, by monotypy. (Synonymised with Hockeria Walker by Bouček 1988b[2]).
- Hypochalcis Girault, 1915b: 325. Type species: Chalcis modesta Masi, by original designation and monotypy. (Synonymised with Hockeria Walker by Bouček 1952[4]).
- Afrochalcis Schmitz, 1946: 115. Type species: Afrochalcis exiguus Schmitz, by monotypy. (Synonymised with Hockeria by Bouček 1988b[2]).
- Hockerella Girault, 1930: 4. Type species: Hockerella dioculata Girault, by original designation. (Synonymised with Hockeria by Bouček 1988b[2]).
- Afrhockeria Steffan, 1955: 381–382. Type species: Afrhockeria basilewskyi Steffan, by original designation and monotypy. (Synonymised with Hockeria by Bouček 1988b[2]).
- Nipponohockeria Habu, 1960: 234. Type species: Nipponohockeria ishiii Habu, by original designation and monotypy. (Synonymised with Hockeria by Narendran 1989[3]).
Diagnosis
This genus closely resembles Antrocephalus Kirby in general appearance, but differs from it in having the face without distinct pre-orbital carinae running behind anterior ocellus, not concave as in Antrocephalus and the pronotum without anterior carinae or tubercles. Only with experience in the taxonomy of this group one can differentiate these two genera.
Description
Face usually without distinct pre-orbital carina, if pre-orbital carina present then the carina does not turn mesad behind anterior ocellus to join the pre-orbital carina of opposite side; scrobe usually not deep but shallow; pronotum never with anterior carinae and tubercles, metasoma similar to that of Antrocephalus and Kriechbaumerella; T1 with or without basal carinae.
Hosts
Parasitic on pupae of Lepidoptera. One species was reared from Strepsiptera (Bouček 1988). Two New World species are parasitoids of Neuroptera and one species was reared from Hymenoptera (Diprionidae) (Bouček (in Bouček & Delvare) 1992).
Distribution
Cosmopolitan.
Key to Vietnamese species of Hockeria Walker
Taxon Treatment
- Narendran, T; van Achterberg, C; 2016: Revision of the family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Vietnam, with the description of 13 new species ZooKeys, (576): 1-202. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Kerrich G, Menon M (1949) On the identiy of Chalcis pusilla Fabricius and some problems of nomenclature on the Chalcididae. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 85: 207–211.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Bouček Z (1988b) Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) – A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, 832 pp.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Narendran T (1989) Oriental Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Zoological Monograph. Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, 1–441.
- ↑ Bouček Z (1952) The first revision of the European species of the family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera). Sborník Entomologického Oddeleni Národního Musea v Praze 27 (supplement 1): 1–108. [17 plates]
