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Tetrodontochelys Richards

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

Tetrodontochelys Richards 1939. Type species: Tetrodontochelys ljunghii Westwood 1833.

Classification

 

Tetrodontochelys nigrior Olmi, 1984

 

Tetrodontochelys varipes (Brues, 1906)

 

Tetrodontochelys zairensis Olmi, 1984

Distribution

Afrotropical, Australian, Nearctic, Oriental &  Palearctic regions

Biology

Hosts: Cicadellidae, except for Idiocerinae, Macropsinae, Typhlocybina

References

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

Richards O. W. 1939. The British Bethylida (s.i.) (Hymenoptera). Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 89: 185-344.

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

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