Chalinus imperialis (Westwood)

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

Oryssus imperialis Westwood 1874. Holotype: in Hope Entomological Collection, University Museum, Oxford. Type locality: Ghana

Chalinus congoensis Guiglia 1936. Holotype: in Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris. Type locality: Kindu (Democratic Republic of Congo. Synonymy by Vilhelmsen 2001

Distribution

Ghana, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania

Biology

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

References

Guiglia, D. 1936. Una nuovo specie del gen. Chalinus (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 260-266.

Westwood, J.O. 1874. Genus Oryssus. Pp. 118-121, pl 22 in: Thesaurus entomolgicus oxoniensis or Illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

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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