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Aphelopus mediocarinatus (Benoit)
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Dryinidae;
Subfamily: Aphelopinae; Genus:
Aphelopus)
Antaphelopus mediocarinatus
Benoit, 1951. Holotype:
female in Musée Royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren (MRAC). Type locality: Paulis
(Democratic Republic of Congo).
Antaphelopus madagascariensis Benoit 1954: 429
Holotype: in Musée Royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren (MRAC). Type locality:
Esira (Madagascar). Synonymy by Olmi, 1984.
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Distribution
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Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ivory Coast
Prov., Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen,
Zimbabwe. |
Biology
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Hosts: Typhlocybinae
(Cicadellidae) (Guglielmino et
al. 2013); in Nigeria: Empoasca sp.; in Mozambique: Molopopterus alfa
Dworakowska and Empoascanara ethiopica Dworakowska
(Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (Guglielmino & Olmi 2006). |
References
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Benoit P.L.G.
1951. Nouveaux Dryinidae d'Afrique centrale (Hymenoptera Aculeata). Riv. Biol. Coloniale 11
(1951): 17-24.
Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M.
2006. A host-parasite
catalog of world Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea): first supplement.
Zootaxa 1139: 35–62.
Guglielmino A, Olmi
M, Bückle C. 2013. An updated host-parasite catalogue of world Dryinidae
(Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Zootaxa 3740: 1–113. doi:
10.11646/zootaxa.3740.1.1
Olmi, M. 1984. A Revision of The
Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 37: 1-947.
Olmi, M. Guglielmino, A., Natha, S.A. & Alfredo, A.A.N. 2012. A
catalogue of Dryinidae of Mozambique, with description of a new species
(Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). African Invertebrates 53: 715-731.
Olmi, M. & Copeland, R.S. 2011.
A catalogue of Dryinidae, Embolemidae
and Sclerogibbidae of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of new
species (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). African Invertebrates 52:
177–206.
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, van Noort S, Guglielmino A. 2016. Contribution to the
knowledge of Afrotropical Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae
(Hymenoptera), with description of new species from Central African
Republic and Uganda. ZooKeys @@: @–@. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.@@.7820
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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Credits
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Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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