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Pristaulacus thoracicus Westwood

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Evanioidea; Family: Aulacidae; Genus: Pristaulacus)

Aulacus thoracicus Westwood 1841. Lectotype: male in Natural History Museum Humboldt University Berlin (ZMHB) - designated by Turrisi 2006. Type locality: Capland (= Cape Province, South Africa).

Distribution

 

Aulacus_thoracicus_distribution

South Africa (Western Cape)

Comments

Described by Westwood in 1841 from a male and female, but has never been collected again.

Biology

Unknown

Reference

Turrisi G.F. 2006. Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristaulacus Kieffer 1900 (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 37: 27-38.

 

Westwood, J.O. 1841. [Descriptions in entomological society proceedings]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1841, 535-539.


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