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Chalinus braunsi (Enslin)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Orussoidea; Family: Orussidae; Genus: Chalinus)

Oryssus braunsi Enslin 1911. Holotype: in Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. Type locality: Platriver, Waterberg (South Africa)

Chalinus schulthessi Guiglia 1936. Synonymy by Vilhelmsen 2001

Classification
Chalinus_braunsi Chalinus_braunsi
Chalinus_braunsi Chalinus_braunsi
Chalinus_braunsi_head Chalinus_braunsi

Distribution

Chalinus_braunsi_distribution

Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa

Biology

Unknown, but presumably a parasitoid of wood-boring insect larvae

References

Enslin, E. 1911. Über Tenthrediniden aus Afrika. Deutsches Entomologisches Zeitschrift 1911: 668-669.

Guiglia, D. 1936. Un nuovo Orisside dell' Africa meridionale (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 136-144.

Vilhelmsen, L. 2001. Systematic revision of the genera Chalinus Konow, 1897 and Mocsarya Konow, 1897 (Hymenoptera, Orussidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 32: 361-380.

Vilhelmsen, L. 2003. Phylogeny and classification of the Orussidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera), a basal parasitic wasp taxon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 337-418.

Credits

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