Family EVANIIDAE
Compiler and date details
11 July 2007 - John T. Jennings, Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide SA 5005
- Hedicke, H. 1939. Hymenoptorum Catalogus. Evaniidae. Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 9.
- Deans, A.R. 2005. Annotated catalog of the world's ensign wasp species (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 34: 1-165
Introduction
Evaniids are solitary parasites of cockroach oothecae (Carlson 1979; Gauld & Bolton 1996). They are readily recognised by their hatchet-shaped metasoma, hence the common name of ensign-flies in North America.
The family is worldwide in distribution and is represented in Australia by some 37 described species belonging to the genera, most belonging to Acanthinevania and Szepligetiella (Deans 2006). The Australian species are thought to be mostly endemic, although several species, including A. mediana and A. princeps, are found in both Australia and New Guinea. The cosmopolitan species Evania appendigaster L. also occurs in Australia. The true size of the Australian fauna is difficult to assess given the morphological homogeneity of the family.
Dean et al. 2007 have provided an on-line catalog to the world fauna.
General References
Carlson, R.W. 1979. Superfamily Evanioidea. pp. 1109-1118 in Krombein, K.V., Hurd, P.D., Smith, D.R. & Burks, B.O. (eds). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institute Press Vol. 2 1199-2209 pp.
Szépligeti, G.V. 1903. Neue Evaniiden aus der sammlung des ungarischen national-museums. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 1: 364-395
History of changes
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