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Sclerogibba magrettii (Kieffer)

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

Prosclerogibba magrettii Kieffer 1913. Holoype: in Museo Civico de Storia Naturale "Giacomp Doria", Genoa. Type locality: Eritrea

Distribution

Sclerogibba magrettii_map

Palaearctic: Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Afrotropical/Palerctic: Yemen, Afrotropical: Eritrea, Nigeria, Tanzania, Oriental: India

Biology

 Host: Embiidina: Embia tyrrhenica Stefani (Stefani, 1956).

Reference

 Kieffer J.J. 1913.  Nouveaux Microhyménoptéres de l'Afrique equatoriale. boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Potici, 7: 105-112.

Credits

 Photographs © Simon van Noort & Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Geneo.
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