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Norbanus africanus Subba Rao

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae; Genus: Norbanus)

Norbanus africanus Subba Rao, 1973. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Fort Johnston (Malawi).

Distribution

Malawi (Subba Rao, 1973); Botswana, Cape Verde Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe (Mitroiu, 2015).

Biology

Parasitoids of moths (Lepidoptera) associated with maize and sorghum crops: Chilo sp. (Crambidae) larvae in maize stems; Busseola sp. (Noctuidae) on sorghum; Spotted Stalk Borer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) on sorghum; “larva of guineacorn stemborer” (a common name given to several moths); and Maize Pink Borer, Sesamia cretica Lederer (Noctuidae)(Mitroiu, 2015).

References

Mitroiu, M.-D. 2015.  Revision of the Afrotropical species of Norbanus Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Zootaxa 3969:1–103. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3969.1.1

Subba Rao, B.R. 1973. Descriptions of four new species of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera). Oriental Insects 7: 355–362.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1973.10434098

Credits

Photographs © Mircea-Dan Mitroiu (Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania). First published in Zootaxa:

http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3969.1.1
 

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