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Caenosclerogibba longiceps (Richards)

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

Sclerogibba longiceps Richards, 1958. Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Chennai (= Madras) (Tamil Nadu, India).

Distribution

Afrotropical: Madagascar, Yemen. Oriental: India, China, Japan, Nepal. Neotropical: Mexico, Ecuador.

Biology

Parasitoids of Embiidina: Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood) Parembia sp., Pseudemia flava Ross (cultures of Dr. K.S. Ananthasubramanian), Oligotoma sp. Aposthonia japonic (Okajima) (rearings of Dr. A. Yokoyama and Dr. M. Tusneyoshi), Aoligotoma humbertiana (Saussure) (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross). unidentified Embiidina (He, 1984) (cultures of Prof. J. He)

Reference

Richards O.W. 1958. Records of Indian Sclerogibbinae (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 13: 17-18.

Credits

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