Genus Mirax Haliday, 1833

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• Mirax Haliday, A.H. 1833. An essay on the classification of the parasitic Hymenoptera of Britain, which correspond with the Ichneumones minuti of Linnaeus. Entomological Magazine. London 1: 259-276.

  Type species:

   Mirax rufilabris Haliday, 1833 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Haliday, A.H. 1834. Essay on the classification of parasitic Hymenoptera. Entomological Magazine. London 2: 93-106.

Introduction

Mirax, being small wasps of the Braconidae family, are parasites of leaf-mining lepidoptera larvae. Slater-Baker et al. (2022) were the first to recognize Australian members of this group and suggest significant numbers of Australian species remain undescribed.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB) ; WA: Warren (WAR)

General References

Slater-Baker, M-R., Austin, A.D., Whitfield, J.B. & Fagan-Jeffries, E.P. 2022. First record of miracine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Australia: molecular phylogenetics and morphology reveal multiple new species. Austral Entomology 61: 49–67

Slater-Baker, M-R., Guzik, M., Rodriguez, J., Howe, A., Woodward, A., Ducker, N. & Fagan-Jeffries, E. 2025. Three new species of Australian miracine parasitoid wasps collected by regional schools as part of the Insect Investigators citizen science project (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Miracinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 98: 19-45 [26]

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