Protapanteles Explained

Protapanteles is a genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are more than 20 described species in Protapanteles, found mainly in the Holarctic.

Species

These species belong to the genus Protapanteles:

• Protapanteles alaskensis
• Protapanteles albigena ^[1]
• Protapanteles anchisiades
• Protapanteles andromica
• Protapanteles armeniacus
• Protapanteles buzurae
• Protapanteles delitutus
• Protapanteles endemus
• Protapanteles enephes
• Protapanteles hirtariae
• Protapanteles iapetus
• Protapanteles immunis
• Protapanteles incertus
• Protapanteles lymantriae
• Protapanteles mandanis
• Protapanteles neparallelus
• Protapanteles obliquae ^[2]
• Protapanteles palabundus
• Protapanteles paleacritae
• Protapanteles parallelus
• Protapanteles phigaliae
• Protapanteles phlyctaeniae
• Protapanteles popularis
• Protapanteles praecipuus
• Protapanteles querceus
• Protapanteles santolinae
• Protapanteles triangulator
• Protapanteles yunnanensis

Further reading

• Eight new species and an annotated checklist of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Canada and Alaska. 2010. Fernandez-Triana . J.. ZooKeys. 63. 1–53. 10.3897/zookeys.63.565. 3088399. 21594019. free.
• An annotated and illustrated checklist of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland. 2017. Fernandez-Triana . J.. Buffam . J.. Beaudin . M.. Davis . H.. Fernandez-Galliano . A.. Griffin . E.. Lin . S-Y. McAulay . M.K.. Richter . R.. Rodriguez . F.. Várkonyi . G.. 4. ZooKeys. 691. 49–101. 10.3897/zookeys.691.14491. 5672697. 29200923. free.
• An identification manual for the North American genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera). 1987. Marsh . Paul M.. Shaw . Scott R.. Wharton . Robert A.. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington.

Notes and References

1. Abdoli . Parisa . Talebi . Ali Asghar . Fernandez-Triana . Jose . Farahani . Samira . Description of a New Species of the Genus Protapanteles Ashmead, 1898 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from Iran . Annales Zoologici . 30 June 2021 . 71 . 2 . 10.3161/00034541ANZ2021.71.2.007 .
2. Selvaraj . K. . Gotyal . B. S. . Satpathy . S. . Ramasubramanian . T. . First Record of Protapanteles obliquae (Wilkinson) (Braconidae: Hymenoptera) on Spilosoma obliqua Walker on Jute Crop . Journal of Biological Control . 1 September 2015 . 29 . 3 . 169 . 10.18641/jbc/29/3/86154.