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Micrapion clavaforme Steffan

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

Micrapion clavaforme Steffan, 1948. Lectotype female in Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Ogowe, N'gomo, Gabon.

Classification

Distribution

Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host: Ceratina tanganyicensis Strand, 1911 (Daly, 1988; Bouček, 1974 as Ceratina sp.).

References

Bouček, Z. 1974. A revision of the Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the world. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Supplement 23: 1-241.

Daly, H.V. 1988. Bees of the new genus Ctenoceratina in Africa south of the Sahara
(Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology 108: 1-69.

Gadallah N, Soliman A, Abu El-Ghiet, U, Elsheikh, T, Al Dhafer, H. 2018. The family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the South of Saudi Arabia, with the first report of the genus Micrapion and description of Leucospis arabica sp. nov.. Journal of Natural History 52: 2071-2096. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1510557.

Madl, M. & Schwarz, M. 2012. Catalogue and faunistics of the family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the Ethiopian region excluding Malagasy subregion. Linzer biologische Beiträge 44: 1221-1235.

Credits

Photographs © Michael Madl and Martin Schwarz (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna).

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


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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