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Sclerogibba berlandi Benoit

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

Mystrocnemis berlandi Benoit 1963. Holoype: in Museum National d'Histoire Naturellle, Paris. Type locality: Tizi n'Test, Morocco.

Synonym. Sclerogibba pilosella (Argaman 1993). Holotype: in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa. Type locality: Molarotto Island, Italy.

Distribution

Sclerogibba berlandi_map

Afrotropical: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Oriental: India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand. Palaearctic: Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey.

Biology

Host: Embiidina: Sclembia sp., Machadoembia sp., (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Plesembia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood), Olitogoma n. sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Aposthonia borneensis (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Scelembia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Haploembia sp., (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Embia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross)

Reference

Benoit  P.L.G. 1963. Bethylides nord-africains recoltès par M.L. Berland. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, 2º Série, 35: 82-84.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort & Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

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