Tetracnemus Westwood, 1837

Kang, Ning, Hu, Hongying, Guo, Shuhan & Luo, Shungang, 2024, A new genus and three newly recorded species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from China, ZooKeys 1193, pp. 49-61 : 49

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1193.116791

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D8234F01-6272-4629-BE9E-C1ADC1368B37

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E4B8E7B-3C59-5D84-8651-AC4761084CC7

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scientific name

Tetracnemus Westwood, 1837
status

 

Genus Tetracnemus Westwood, 1837 View in CoL

Note.

The most important characteristics of the genus are the wide and flat flagellum, clava only one segment, and mandible bidentate. The genus encompasses 36 species worldwide, with three species recorded in China. These species are widely distributed throughout the world and their dominant hosts belong to Pseudococcidae ( Noyes 2019).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae