''Callidora'' is a genus of parasitoid

wasps A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...

belonging to the family

Ichneumonidae The Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25 ...

and the subfamily

Campopleginae Campopleginae is a large subfamily of the parasitoid wasp family (biology), family Ichneumonidae with a world-wide distribution. Species in this subfamily have been used in the Biological pest control, biological control of the Hypera postica, al ...

. It is relatively species poor, with only five recognized species. The genus has an almost

cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...

Description

Much like in other Campopleginae is the

metasoma The metasoma is the posterior part of the body, or tagma (biology), tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the mesosoma. In insects, it contains most of the digestive tract, respiratory sy ...

laterally compressed and the tip of the

ovipositor The ovipositor is a tube-like organ used by some animals, especially insects, for the laying of eggs. In insects, an ovipositor consists of a maximum of three pairs of appendages. The details and morphology of the ovipositor vary, but typica ...

notched. Clypeus small, mandibles and cheeks short. Eyes bare. Spurs hind tibiae reach the middle of the first segment of hind tarsus. Areola on propodeum small, hexagonal but open behind. Areolet of the wings present, second recurrent vein leaving near its middle. Nervellus intercepted. First tergite with a very weak glymma. Females of some species have a distinctive white ring on the antennae. Head and thorax black, metasoma usually red with black markings.

Species

* '' Callidora albovincta'' (Holmgren, 1860) * '' Callidora analis'' (Gravenhorst, 1829) * '' Callidora atrognatha'' Gupta & Gupta, 1977 * '' Callidora surata'' Tigner, 1969 * '' Callidora tegularis'' Tigner, 1969

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14536337 Campopleginae Ichneumonidae genera Taxa named by Arnold Förster