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Metrionotus brevispinosus (Benoit)

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

Mesitius brevispinosus Benoit 1968, 77: 85, 92, 94. Holotype: in British Museum of Natural History, London. Type locality: "Prov. du Cap: Matjiesfontein"

Taxonomy: Moczar 1970, 16: 437-438, 443-444; Moczar 1971, 17: 328; Mocar 1947, 20: 174.

 

 

 

 

Distribution

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Botswana, Namibia, South Africa (Transkei, Cape Province, Natal)

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

 

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