Family TETRACAMPIDAE
Compiler and date details
July 2012 - Danielle N. Stringer, Sarah Mantel, John T. Jennings & Andrew D. Austin, Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and the School of Earth and Environmental Science, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Introduction
The Tetracampidae are a small family, rarely collected. Only seven described species occur in Australia. Tetracampids are characterised by females having five tarsal segments, males four; the fore tibial spur small and straight; antenna with six (rarely five) funicular segments; pronotum long (greater than half the length of the mesoscutum) and rounded without prominent anterior corners; and the basal cell of the fore wing usually densely setose (hairy). The biology of very few species is known, but most appear to be parasitoids of leaf-mining larvae or insect eggs. Keys to Australasian genera are included in Boucek (1988).
History of changes
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| 06-Feb-2012 | MODIFIED |