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Probethylus callani Richards

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

Probethylus callani Richards 1939. Holotype: The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: St. Augustine, Trinidad

 

Distribution

Probethylus callani_map

Nearctic: USA: Arizona, California, Texas. Neotropical: Mexico, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. Afrotropical: South Africa, Congo, Yemen.

Biology

Parasitoid of Embiidina: Pararhagachir trachelia (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Archembia sp., Scaphemnia sp., (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Jeratembia geniculata Krauss, Pararhagadochir sp., Chelicerra sp., Diradius sp., Archembia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Calamoclostes sp., Parahagachir trinitatis Saussure ssp. (cultures of Dr. E.R. Ross), Parthembia sp., Plesembia sp., Dihybocercus collaris (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Chelicera ruficollis (Saussure) (cultures E.S. Ross), Oligembia n. sp., Stenembia sp., Gibocercus sandrae Ross (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Neohagadochir salvini (McLachlan), Diradius sp., Chelicera sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Dactylocera rubra Ross, Chelicerca nodulosa Ross, Chelicerca chamulae Ross, Chelicerca guerreroa Ross, Chelicera lutea Ross, Chelicerca tantilla Ross, Chelicerca heymonsi (Enderlein), Brachypterembia moreliensis Ross, Pachylembia taxcoensis Ross, Pachylembia chapalae Ross, Oligembia melanura Ross, Neorhagadochir (Drepanembia) n. sp., Neorhagachir salvini (McLachlan), Glyphembia n. sp., Dactylocerca multispiculata Ross (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Neorhagadochir (Drepanembia) n. sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Saussurembia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Pararhagachir n. sp., Arhembia peruviana Ross, Clothoda longicauda Ross, Platyembia tessellata Ross, Calamoclostes-like n. gen., Chellicerca loma Ross (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Rhagadochir vosseleri (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Pararhagadochir trinitatis (Sausssure), Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood) (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Dactylocerca ashworthi Ross (Anisembiidae) (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Pararhadochir trinitatis (Saussure) ssp., Stenembia n. sp., Antipaluria intermedia Davis (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross).

Reference

Richards O.W. 1939. The Bethylidae subfamily Sclerogibbinae (Hymenoptera). Proc. Royal Ent. Soc. London (B), 8: 211-223.

Credits

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