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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. Type locality: Chennai (= Madras) (Tamil Nadu, India)

Distribution

Caenosclerogibba longiceps_map

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

Biology

Parasitoids of Embiidina: Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood) (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Parembia sp., Pseudemia flava Ross (cultures of Dr. K.S. Ananthasubramanian), Oligotoma sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), 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.

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