Muscidifurax raptor Girault et Sanders, 1910

Distribution in Russia

Sakhalin Prov.

Distribution in the world

West and East Europe, Russia, North Africa, Israel, Central Asia, China, South Korea; Hawaiian Islands, North and South, America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand.

Biology

A primary parasitoid of many dipterans of the families Syrphidae, Tephritidae, Sepsidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae, Calliphoridae, and Sarcophagidae, and a secondary parasitoid of Ravinia derelicta Walker (Sarcophagidae).

In the collection of ZISP

1 female

Literature

  • Girault A.A., Sanders G.E. 1910. The chalcidoid parasites of the common house or typhoid fly (Musca domestica Linn.) and its allies. iii. Description of a new North American genus and species of the family Pteromalidae from Illinois, parasitic on Musca domestica Linn., with biological notes. Psyche, Cambridge 17: 145-160. PDF
  • Tselikh E.V. 2014. Chalcid wasps of the family Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of Kuril Islands. Entomological Review,. 94(1): 603-625. 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