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Afrevania longipetiolata Mikó, Copeland, Balhoff, Yoder & Deans

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

Afrevania longipetiolata Mikó, Copeland, Balhoff, Yoder & Deans, 2014. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum (SAMC). Type locality: Ramsgate Butterfly Sanctuary, South Africa.

Classification

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Host species of cockroach (Blattodea) unknown.

References

Mikó I, Copeland RS, Balhoff JP, Yoder MJ, Deans AR 2014. Folding Wings like a Cockroach: A Review of Transverse Wing Folding Ensign Wasps (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae: Afrevania and Trissevania). PLoS ONE 9(5): e94056. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094056

Credits

Photographs © Istvan Mikó (Frost Entomological Museum, Pennsylvania, USA).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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