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Sclerogibba madegassa Benoit

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

Mystrocnemis berlandi Benoit 1952. Holoype: in Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Type locality: Bekily, Madagascar

Distribution

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Afrotropical: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Gabon, Madagascar, Nigeria. Oriental: Sri Lanka, Thailand.

Biology

Host: Embiidina: Scelembia malkini (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Plescembia sp., Scelembia sp. (cultures if Dr. E.S. Ross), Teratembiidae (cultures if dr. E.S. Ross)

Reference

Benoit  P.L.G. 1952. Les Scleroginnidae (Hym.), famille nouvelle pour la faune de Madagascar. Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Série E, 1 (1): 181-182.

Credits

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

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