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Chalinus plumicornis (Guérin-Menneville)

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

Oryssus plumicornis Guérin-Menneville 1848. Holotype: depository unknown. Type locality: Unknown

Chalinus plumicornis (Guérin-Menneville) Species inquirendae (Vilhelmsen 2001)

Distribution

Chalinus_plumicornis_distribution

Ethiopia, South Africa

Biology

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

References

 Guérin-Menneville, F. E. 1848. Histoire Naturelle - Zoologie. In Lefebvre, Petit. Quartin-Dillon & Vignaud: Voyage en Abyssinie exécuté pendant les années 1839-1843, vol 6. Crapelet, Paris.

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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