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Prorops sparsa Waichert & Azevedo

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

Prorops sparsa Waichert & Azevedo, 2012. Holotype: in California Academy of Sciences (CASC). Type locality: Province Diego-Suarez, Parc National Montagne d’Ambre, elevation 975 m, 12°31’S 49°11’E.
Prorops sparsa
Prorops sparsa forewing

Prorops_sparsa_male_genitalia

Male genitalia. Left to right: ventral view; dorsal view; external face of paramere, lateral view; internal face of paramere and digitus, lateral view. Scale bars = 0.12 mm.

Distribution

Madagascar.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Waichert C. & Azevedo C.O. 2012. The genus Prorops Waterson, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Madagascar. European Journal of Taxonomy 16: 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.16

Waterston J. 1923. Notes on parasitic Hymenoptera. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14:103-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007485300028248

Credits

Photographs and line drawings © Cecília Waichert & Celso O. Azevedo.

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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