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Plastanoxus westwoodi (Kieffer)

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

Cephalonomia westwoodi Kieffer 1914, 41: 243, 248. Holotype: in Hope Museum, Oxford. Type locality: Africa

Plastanoxus kiefferi Gahan 1931, 21: 217.

Taxonomy: Westwood 1881, 126-127, pl 6 fig 4; Kieffer 1908, 76: 40 (catalog); Gahan 1931, 21: 213-218, figs 1-3, Marshall et al. 1937, 5: 97 (list); Russo 1938, 2: 332-340, figs 188-193; Richards 1939, 89: 298, 320; Hellen 1953, 33: 89; Cabal Concha 1956, 18: 65; Evans 1964, 132: 150, 151; Hedqvist 1975, 96: 1299-120; Evans 1978, 27: 1919, 194-195, figs 11, 34, 35; Fitton et al. 1978, 9: 127 (list).

Ecology: From "Indina Corn'; From pupal cell of Laemophloeus pussilus (Schonherr) Note: Appparently found wherever grain is stored.

Distribution

Africa, Australia, Columbia, England, Finland, Italy, USA.

Biology

Host: Platystomidae: Araecerus fasciculatus DeGeer

Richards 1933, 1: 52

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