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Chalinus orientalis Guiglia

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

Chalinus orientalis Guiglia 1937. Holotype: in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. Type locality: Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)

 

Distribution

Chalinus_orientalis_distribution

Tanzania

Biology

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

References

 Guiglia, D. 1937. Su due specie di Chalinus del Congo (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 363-369.

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

Photographs © Simon van Noort and Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris.
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