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Sclerodermus sanctaehelenae Benoit

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

Sclerodermus sanctaehelenae Benoit, 1976. Holotype in Tervuren (RMCA). Type locality: St. Helena.

 

Distribution

St. Helena.

Biology

 Host: Cerambycidae (Walton 1948, 23: 98; Nicoli and Erlande-Brandenburg 1957, 32: 551-562).

Reference

Basilewsky P, Benoit PLG, Decelle J, Dessart P, Leclercq J, Taylor RW. 1976. Hymenoptera, pp. 155-205. In : Basilewsky P. (Ed.). The terrestrial fauna of the island of Saint Helena. Third part. Annals of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Zoology 215: 1-533.

Credits

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