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Sclerogibba africana (Kieffer)

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

Mystrocnemis africana Kieffer 1904. Holoype: in Museo Civico de Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genoa. Type locality: Bolama, Guinea-Bissau

Distribution

Sclerogibba africana_map

Afrotropical: Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, South Africa, Yemen. Nearctic: U.S.A. Oriental: India, Sri Lanka.

Biology

Host: Embiidina: Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood) (Krombein, 1979 a), Nodosembia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Nodosembia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Oligotoma nigra (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Apterembia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), presumptive hosts are Olitogoma humbertiana (Saussure), Olitogoma saundersii (Westwood) and Aposthonia ceylonica (Enderlein) (Krombein, 1979)

Reference

Kieffer J.J. 1904. Description de nouveaux Dryininae et Bethylidae du Musée Civique de Gênes. Ann. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Genova, Serie 3, I (XLI): 351-412.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort and Museo Civico de Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genoa.

 

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