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Sclerodermus wollastini Westwood

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

Sclerodermus wollastoni Westwood, 1881, 124: 120, 122-123, pl v fig 2. Holotype in Hope Museum, Oxford. Type locality: In insula Stae. Helenae.

Dalla Torre 1898, 5: 560 (catalog), Kieffer 1908, 76: 42 (catalog), Kieffer 1914, 41: 256, 266; Medler 1980, 30: 470 (list).

 

Distribution

St. Helena. (Mauritius?, Sierra Leone?).

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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