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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 Ditsong Museum, Pretoria (TMSA).
Type locality: Platriver, Waterberg (South Africa).
Chalinus
schulthessi Guiglia,
1936. Holotype: in
Zoologische
Staatssammlung, München (ZSM).
Type locality: Rikatla, near Delagoa [=Maputo], Mozambique. Synonymy by Vilhelmsen, 2001.
Junior synonym
of
Chalinus plumicornis
(Guérin-Méneville, [1849]).
Synonymy by Vilhelmsen, et al 2017.
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Distribution
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Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa,
Zimbabwe.
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Biology
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Unknown, but presumably a
parasitoid of wood-boring insect larvae.
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References
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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.
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Credits
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Photographs
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Stephen M. Blank
or © Lars Vilhelmsen (Natural History
Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen). |
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