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Pristocera obliterata Kieffer

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

Pristocera obliterata Kieffer 1913, 1: 9. Holotype: in ? Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Type locality: "Afrique orientale anglaise: Rurunga"

Pristocera obliterata luteipes (junior synonym) Benoit 1957, 88: 55. Holotype: in Musee Royal l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. Type locality: "Rweru (volc. Mikeno)"

Taxonomy: Kieffer 1914, 41: 425; Benoit 1956, 51: 563; Benoit 1957, 88: 54-55, figs 28, 29; Benoit 1963, 119, 35, 58-60, 90, figs 92-94. Ecology: Taken from bamboo; taken at 2,300 meter elevation.

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution

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Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

 

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