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Calosotinae

Calosotine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eupelmidae)

Classification

  Balcha Walker, 1862
  Calosota Curtis, 1836

Eusandalum Ratzeburg, 1852

  Pentacladia Westwood, 1835
Distribution Worldwide
Biology Ectoparasitoids of wood-boring Coleoptera or primary or hyper parasitoids of Hymenoptera, Diptera or Lepidoptera.

References

Gibson 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.

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