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Termitopria Muesebeck

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

Termitopria Muesebeck, 1965: 188. Type species: Termitopria sheasbyi Muesebeck, 1965, by monotypy.

 

Termitopria sheasbyi Muesebeck, 1965

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Host: ex termite (Isoptera) nest.

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

Muesebeck C.F.W. 1965. A new diapriid (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) from termite nests from South Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 27: 188-190.

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

Sundholm, A. 1970. Hymenoptera. Proctotrupidae. In: Hanstrom, B, Brink, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds.) South African Animal Life. Lund: Berlingska Boktryckeriet 14: 306-401.

Yoder, M. 2021. The Diapriidae. http://www.diapriid.org/projects/4/public/site/diapriid/home

Credits

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