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Cleruchus musangae (Mathot)

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

Bakkendorfia musangae Mathot, 1966. Holotype in ?. Type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo.

Classification

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Annecke, D.P. 1961. Two new genera of Myridae [sic] from South Africa (Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera). Kudu. 4:68-77.

Barnes BN 2014. First record of a fairyfly, Cleruchus depressus (Annecke) (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), parasitizing eggs of banded fruit weevil, Phlycitinus callosus Schönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in South Africa. African Entomology 22(4): 900–905. https://doi.org/10.4001/003.022.0404

Huber J, Triapitsyn S 2017. Two genera of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) new to Africa, a remarkable new species of Anaphes and new generic synonymy. ZooKeys 658: 39-61. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.658.11569

Credits

Photographs © John Huber & Jennifer Read (Canadian National Collection of Insects).


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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