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Dryinus orophilus (Benoit)

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

Lestodryinus orophilus (Benoit 1950). Holotype: female in Musée Royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren. Type locality: Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dryinus incertus Olmi, 1984. Synonymy by Olmi 2006.

Distribution

Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Zaire, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Olmi M., 1984. A Revision of The Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst., 37: 1-947.

Olmi, M. 2006. A catalogue of Dryinidae and Embolemidae of South Africa, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera Chrysidodea). Frustula entomologica (2005)(N.S.) vol. 28-29 (41-42): 1-57.

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