(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily Chalcidoidea; Family Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Cleonyminae)
Solenura Westwood 1868. Type species: Solenura telescopica Westwood 1868.
Afrotropical: Somalia, South Africa. Nearctic: U.S.A. Oriental: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka
Parasitoids of wood-boring beetle larva. Hosts: Chrystobothris succedanea (Buprestidae), Trichoferus campestris (Cerambycidae)
Westwood, J.O. 1868. Descriptions of new genera and species of Chalcididae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1868:xxxv-xxxvii.
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