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Philomidinae

Philomidine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification
Aperilampus
Philomides
Distribution Afrotropical and Palaearctic.
Biology Parasitoids of bees (Halictidae).

References

 Darling, D.C. 1988. Comparative morphology of the labrum in Hymenoptera: the digitate labrum of Perilampidae and Eucharitidae (Chalcidoidea). Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 2811-2835.

Darling, D.C. 1992. The life history and larval morphology of Aperilampus (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) with a discussion of the phylogenetic affinities of the Philomidinae. Systematic Entomology 17: 331-339.

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