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Megaprosternum cleonarovorum Gupta & Azevedo

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

Megaprosternum cleonarovorum Gupta & Azevedo, 2017. Holotype in

Distribution

Seychelles. Also Oriental region (India).

Biology

Gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) on the host plant Ixora coccinea L. (Rubiacae) (Gupta et al. 2017).

References

Azevedo CO. 2006. Two new genera of Sclerodermini (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae, Epyrinae) with large, scolebythid-like prosternums. Zootaxa, 1191:35–47.

Azevedo CO & van Noort S. 2018. Flat wasp fauna from Cousine island, Seychelles, with description of a new species of Holepyris (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Atoll Research Bulletin 615: 1-12. http://opensi.si.edu/index.php/smithsonian/catalog/book/179

Gupta, A., S. K. Rajeshwari and C. O. Azevedo. 2017. Biology and description of Megaprosternum cleonarovorum sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) a gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India. Zootaxa, 4237:078–090. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.4.

Credits

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