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Closterocerus orthopterae (Risbec)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eulophidae; Subfamily: Entedoninae; Genus: Closterocerus)

Cassidocida orthopterae Risbec, 1951. Syntypes in the Natural History Museum, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Bambey, Senegal. Combination by Gumovsky (2016).

Classification

Distribution

Senegal.

Biology

 Egg parasitoid of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera), in particular Diogena fausta (Burmeister) (Risbec 1951)

References

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Gumovsky, A. 2016. A review of genera and described Afrotropical species of Tetracampinae (Hymenoptera: Tetracampidae), with description of a new genus from East Central Africa. Zootaxa 4111: 393-420.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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