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Tetrodontochelys varipes (Brues)

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

Gonatopus varipes Brues 1906. Holotype: female in Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee. Type locality: Mashonaland, Zimbabwe.
   

Distribution

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Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown

Reference

Brues C.T., 1906. Descriptions of parasatic Hymenoptera from Cape Colony. Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc. 4: 103-112.

Olmi M., 1984. A Revision of The Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst., 37: 947-1913.

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