Pteromalus sequester Walker, 1835

Distribution in Russia

Leningrad, Moscow, Smolensk, Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov provinces, Krasnodar Terr., Novosibirsk Prov., Altai Terr., Irkutsk Prov., Primorskii Terr., Sakhalinskaya Prov.

Distribution in the world

Holarctic, Oriental, Afrotropical, and Australasian regions.

Biology

Primary parasitoid of coleopterans of the families Bruchidae, Apionidae and Curculionidae, dipterans of the families Cecidomyiidae and Tephritidae, hymenopterans of the family Eurytomidae and lepidopterans of the family Pyralidae.

In the collection of ZISP

58 females, 20 males.

Literature

  • 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
  • Tselikh E.V. 2021. New data on the Pteromalid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) of the European part of Russia. Entomological Review, 101 (1), 121–135.