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Anteon canabense (Benoit)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Drynidae; Subfamily: Anteoninae; Genus: Anteon)

Hirtanteon canabensis Benoit, 1951. Holotype: female in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (RMCA). Type locality: Ubangi, Likimi, Mundjungani, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Distribution

Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Yemen.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1951. Nouveaux Dryinidae (Hym.-Acul.) éthiopiens. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 44: 157-164.

Olmi, M. 1984. A Revision of The Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 37: 1-947.

Olmi, M. &  van Harten, A. 2006. Dryinidae, Sclerogibbidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of Yemen, with revised keys to the species of the Arabian peninsula. Fauna of Arabia 21: 307–337.

Olmi, M. & Copeland, R.S. & Guglielmino, A. 2015. An updated checklist of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera) of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of thirteen new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55: 333-380.

Olmi, M., Copeland, R.S. & van Noort, S. 2019. Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Zootaxa 4630: 1–619. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4630.1.1

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