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Norbanus tenuicornis Bouček

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

Norbanus tenuicornis Bouček, 1970. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Ortovero nr. Albenga (Italy).

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, South Africa, Zimbabwe (Mitroiu, 2015). Also Palaearctic region (Rizzo & Mitroiu, 2010).

Biology

Unknown. Probably a grass inhabitant (Bouček, 1970).

References

Bouček, Z. 1970. Contribution to the knowledge of Italian Chalcidoidea based mainly on a study at the Institute of Entomology in Turin, with descriptions of some new European species (Hymenoptera). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 49: 35–102.

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

Rizzo M.C. & Mitroiu, M.-D. 2010. Revision of the European, North African and Central Asian species of the genus Norbanus Walker 1843 (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19: 228–243.

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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