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Adult host
Megamelus scutellaris,
biocontrol agent against water hyacinth,
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Nymph of
Megamelus scutellaris,
parasitized by two E. migratorius larvae
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Distribution
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Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde Is., Democratic
Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique,
Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe. Also Palaearctic region: Egypt,
Oman, United Arab Emirates.
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Biology |
Hosts: Delphacidae,
Delphacinae: in Egypt: nymphs of Sogatella furcifera (Horváth)
and S. vibix (Haupt); in Mozambique: Sogatella petax
Fennah (Guglielmino et al. 2013); in South Africa: Megamelus
scutellaris Berg (reared from Megamelus scutellaris colonies
of Neotropical origin (imported from Argentina via USA) that are being
mass reared at Rhodes University in Grahamstown for biocontrol against
water hyacinth, Pontederia
crassipes (Martius)
[= Eichhornia crassipes
Mart. (Solms)] (Pontederiaceae)) (Kraus, Coetzee, van Noort & Olmi, in
press).
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References |
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Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae
(Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion. Linzer Biologische
Beitrage 42(2): 845-918.
Benoit, P.L.G. 1954. Monographie des Dryinidae malgaches (Hym.-Acul.).
Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifiques de Madagascar, Série E 4: 383-430.
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
Hendawy, A. 2001.
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Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt, 28–29 October
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van Noort S & Olmi M. 2019.
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Olmi, M. 1984. A Revision of The
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Olmi, M. & van Harten, A.
2000. Notes on Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of Yemen,
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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(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 578: 45-95. |
Credits
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Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Illustrations
© Luca Palermo, or
© Nicolò Falchi.
Line illustrations
© Massimo Olmi (Viterbo). |
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