Dinotiscus aponius (Walker, 1848)

Distribution in Russia

Leningrad, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Ryazan, Voronezh and Belgorod provinces, Karachai-Cherkess, Perm, Khabarovsk and Primorskii territories, Sakhalin Prov.

Distribution in the world

Europe, Ukraine, Armenia, Kazakhstan, China, Japan.

Biology

Primary parasitoid of coleopterans from the families Curculionidae and Scolytidae; secondary parasitoid of hymenopterans from the family Braconidae.

In the collection of ZISP

54 females, 37 males

Literature

  • Tselikh E.V. 2010. Chalcids of the Subfamily Pteromalinae (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) as Parasitoids of the Bark Beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytidae) in the Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Territories PDF
  • Tselikh E.V. 2019. 38. Family Pteromalidae / Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Volume II. Apocrita: Parasitica, Eds. by Belokobylskij S.A., Samartsev K.G., Il'inskaya A.S. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences. Supplement 8. Zoological Institute RAS, St Petersburg, 83–111. PDF
  • Walker, F., List of the Specimens of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum (London, 1848), Part 2. PDF