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Trachepyris breviscapus (Kieffer)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Bethylidae; Subfamily: Epyrinae;  Genus: Trachepyris)

Epyris breviscapus Kieffer 1904, 1: 396, 402-403. Holotype: in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genevo. Type locality: Afrique occidentale: lles du Cap Vert: S. Thiago

 

Synonym: Epyris spinitarsis Kieffer 1904, 1: 395, 402. Holotype: in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genevo. Type locality: Guinee portugaise: Bolama

 

Synonym: Acanthepyris propinquus Turner 1928, 1: 134-135. Holotype: in British Museum of Natural History, London. Type Locality: Queenstown (Mossel Bay), South Africa

 

Taxonomy: Kieffer 1908, 76: 27, 28 (catalog); Kieffer 1914, 41: 311, 333, 402, 404, fig 148; Benoit 1957, 88: 11; Benoit 1963, 35: 83; Krombein 1990, 92: 101-105, figs 9-199 (redescription)

   

Distribution

Cape Verde islands, Guinea Bisseau, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Africa

Biology

Unknown

Reference

 

Credits

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