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Sclerogibba Riggio & De Stefani-Perez

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

Sclerogibba Riggio & De Stefani-Perez 1888. Type species: Sclerogibba crassifemorata Riggio & De Stefani-Perez 1888

Sclerogibba africana (Kieffer, 1904)

Sclerogibba berlandi Benoit, 1963

Sclerogibba crassifemorata Riggio Stefani-Perez, 1888

 

Sclerogibba impressa Olmi, 2005 

Sclerogibba madegassa Benoit, 1952

Sclerogibba magrettii (Kieffer, 1913)

  Sclerogibba rapax Olmi, 2005

 

Sclerogibba rufithorax (Cameron, 1904)

Sclerogibba talpiformis Benoit, 1950

Sclerogibba turneri Richards, 1939

Sclerogibba vagabunda (Bridwell, 1919)

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Ectoparasitoids of Oligotoma greeniana Enderlein, O. minuscula Enderlein and O. nigra Hagen nymphs (Oligotomidae, Embioptera).

References

Argaman, Q. 1988. Generic synopsis of Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 80, 177-187.

Bridwell, J.C. 1919. Some notes on Hawaiian and other Bethylidae (Hymenoptera) with description of new species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4, 21-38.

Olmi, M. 2005. A revision of the world Sclerogibbidae (Hymneoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica 26-27 (2003-2004): 46-193.

Credits

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