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Spilomicrus myrmecophilus Nixon

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Diaprioidea; Family: Diapriidae; Subfamily: Diapriinae; Genus: Spilomicrus)

Spilomicrus myrmecophilus Nixon, 1946: 787. Holotype female (BMNH 9.646) in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Corps de Garde Mountain, Mauritius.


Female

 


Male

 


Distribution

Mauritius.

Biology

Host: Solenopsis mameti Donisthorpe, 1946 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

References

Johnson, N.F. 1992. Catalog of world Proctotrupoidea excluding Platygastridae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1-825. doi:10.5281/zenodo.23657

Madl M. 2015. A catalogue of the families Ceraphronidae, Megaspilidae (Ceraphronoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea) and Proctotrupidae (Proctotrupoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitraege 47(1): 621–652.

Nixon GEJ. 1946. LXXV. A new myrmecophilous diapriid (Hymenoptera. Serphoidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13: 107, 787-789. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222934608654600

Notton DG. 2014. A catalogue of types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London. European Journal of Taxonomy 75: 1-123.

Credits

Photographs © Victor Kolyada (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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