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Embolemus Westwood

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

Embolemus Westwood 1833. Type species: Embolemus ruddii Westwood 1833.

Classification

Embolemus africanus (Risbec, 1957)

  Embolemus ambrensis Olmi, 2004
  Embolemus brothersi Olmi, 2006
  Embolemus burundensis Olmi, 2011
  Embolemus capensis Olmi, 1997
  Embolemus fisheri Olmi, 2010
  Embolemus harteni Olmi, 1997

 

Embolemus sanborni Olmi, 1997

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Olmi, M. 1996. A revision of the world  Embolemidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula entomologica (1995), N.S., 18: 85-146.

Olmi, M. 1997. A contribution to the knowledge of the Embolemidae and Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Bollettino di Zoologia agraria e di Bachicoltura. Ser II 29, 125-150.

Olmi, M. 2004. New species of Dryinidae and Embolemidae from Madagascar (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula entomologica (2002), N.S., 25: 86-109.

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.

Risbec, J. 1957. Un Embolemidae africain (Hymenoptera Bethyloidea).  Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. (3-4), 419-421.

Westwood, J.O. 1833. Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. Philosophical Magazine (3) 2: 443-445, 14 figs.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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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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