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Gonatopus kanyawarus Olmi, van Noort & Guglielmino

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

Gonatopus kanyawarus Olmi, van Noort & Guglielmino, 2016. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 0°33.871'N, 30°21.355'E,1495 m, Uganda.

Holotype female. A habitus, dorsal view B habitus lateral view (inset: data labels) C head, mesosoma dorsal view D head, mesosoma lateral view E head, anterior view F chela (slide mounted).

Chela of holotype.

Mesosoma in dorsal (prothorax removed), lateral view of holotype (rounded protrusions of metanotum indicated by arrows).

Distribution

Uganda.

Biology

Host unknown.

Reference

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.

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


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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