Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Aphaereta aotea
Avispa parasitoide, Parasitoid wasp
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Superfamily
Ichneumonoidea
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Aphaereta
Species
aotea
Taxon category: Accepted
Substrate or host preferences: It has been shown to be able to utilise the larvae of a range of dung-breeding Diptera as hosts
- García-Ruilova, A. B. Donoso, D. A., Basset, Y., Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., Garcés-Carrera, S., Jarrín-V, P., Muñoz-Tobar, S. I., Padhye, S., Perez, K. H. J., Sones, J. E., Quiñónez-Sánchez, D., Sánchez, P., Smith, M. A., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Hebert, P. D. N., & Inclán, D. J. (2026) Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion. Sci Data 13, 1026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07465-z
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"Galapagos Species Database, Aphaereta aotea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25671. Accessed 6 November 2026.