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Chalinus somalicus Guiglia

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

Chalinus somalicus Guiglia 1935. Holotype: in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova. Type locality: Villagio Duca degli Abruzzi (Somalia)

Classification

Distribution

Chalinus_somalicus_Distribution

Somalia, Kenya

Biology

Parasitoid of wood-boring cerambycid larva ex Rinorea convallariiflora (Violaceae).

References

Guiglia, D. 1935. Un nuovo Oryssidae africano. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 57: 273-280.

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 & Natural History Museum, London. Images taken with hand held SLR (Nikon D80), 105 mm macro lens and slave flashes diffused through polystyrene cup.
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