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Aphelopus severancei Olmi, Copeland & Guglielmino

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

Aphelous severancei Olmi, Copeland & Guglielmino 2015. Holotype: in The National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi (NMKE). Type locality: Taita Hills, Vuria Forest, 3.41428°S 38.29178°E, 2162 m (Kenya).

Male genitalia (right half removed) of Holotype.

Distribution

Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa.

Biology

Unknown.

References

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

 Line illustration © Massimo Olmi (Tropical Entomology Research Center, Viterbo, Italy). Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or photographs © Bob Copeland (ICIPE).

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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