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  Deinodryinus paulyi (Olmi)

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

Prioranteon paulyi Olmi, 1987. Holotype: female in the collection of Faculté des Sciences Agronomiquws de l'Etat, Gembloux, Belgium (FAG). Type locality: Tattaguine, Senegal.

Deinodryinus nigerensis Olmi, 1990. Holotype: male in National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (USNM). Type locality: Tarna goulbin, Maradi, Niger (synonymy by Olmi, 2007).

Distribution

Cape Verde Islands, Kenya, Namibia, Niger, Senegal.

Biology

Hosts: in Namibia, Aconurella compta, Exitianus nanus and Exitianus okahandia (Cicadellidae).

Adult of Aconurella compta (Naudé), (length 3.4 mm) with larval exuviae of Deinodryinus paulyi (Olmi); collected from Namibia, 40 km W Keetmanshoop. Photograph © Massimo Olmi (Viterbo).

References

Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M. 2015. Revision of the Afrotropical species of Deinodryinus Perkins, 1907 (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), with description of a new species from Madagascar. African Invertebrates 56: 229–259.

Olmi, M. 1987. New Species of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Fragm. Entomol., Roma, 19: 371-456.

Olmi, M. 1990. Supplement to the revision of the world Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula ntomologica (N.S.) 12: 109–395.

Olmi, M. 2007. New species of Afrotropical Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), with description of a new genus and a new subfamily. African Invertebrates, vol  48: 199-232.

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(1): 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

Credits

Photographs © Massimo Olmi (Viterbo). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


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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