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Sclerogibba talpiformis Benoit

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

Mystrocnemis berlandi Benoit 1950. Holotype in ?. Type locality: Komi, (Sakuru) Congo. Paratype: in Museum National d'Histoire Naturellle, Paris.

 

Distribution

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

Biology

Host: Parasitoid Embiidinana: Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood) (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Olitogoma sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Parachirembia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Embia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Olitogoma saundersii (Westwood) (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross), Embia sp. (cultures of Dr. E.S. Ross)

Reference

Benoit  P.L.G. 1952 - Les Scleroginnidae (Hym.-Aul.) éthiopiens. Rev. zool. bot. Afr., 44 (1): 132-134.

Credits

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

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