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Orussidae

Classification and checklist of afrotropical orussid wasps

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

Identification keys

References

 

Benson, R.B. 1935. On the genera of the Orussidae, with an account of the African species (Hymenoptera Symphyta). Occasional Papers of the Rhodesian Museum 4: 1–10.

Benson, R.B. 1955. Classification of the Orussidae with some new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Symphyta). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 24: 13–23.

Cameron, P. 1912. On the Hymenoptera from Belgian Congo in the Congo Museum, Tervuren. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56: 357-401.

du Buysson, R. 1902. Hyménoptères nouveaux du Congo. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 8: 599-601.

Enslin, E. 1911. Über Tenthrediniden aus Afrika. Deutsches Entomologisches Zeitschrift 1911: 668-669.

Enslin, E. 1913. Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition G. Tessmanns nach Süd-Kamerun und Spanisch-Guinea. Mitteilungen des Zoologisches Museum Berlin 7: 104–114.

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.

Guiglia, D. 1935. Un nouvo Orysside del Congo Belga. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 57: 6–11.

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

Guiglia, D. 1936. Un nuovo Orisside dell’Africa meridionale (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 136–144.

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

Guiglia D. 1937a. Gli Orussini Africani del gen. Chalinus (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 452–460 + 1 plt.

Guiglia, D. 1937. Il gen. Oryssus in Africa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 411–419 + 2 plts.

Guiglia, D. 1937. Su due specie di Chalinus del Congo (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 363–369 + 1 plt.

Kraus, M. 1998. Die Orussidae Europas und des Nahen Ostens (Hymenoptera: Symphyta). Pp. 283-300 in Taeger & Blank: Pflanzenwespen Deutschlands 367 pp., 8 pl. Goecke & Evers, Keltern.

Latreille, P.A. 1796. Précis des Caractères génériques des Insectes disposés dans un ordre naturel par le Citoyen Latreille. Paris.

Saussure, H. de. 1890. Histoire naturelle des hyménoptéres. In Grandidier: Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, vol 20. L'Imprimerie Nationale, 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.

Vilhelmsen, L. 2004. The old wasp and the tree: fossils, phylogeny and biogeography in the Orussidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 82: 139-160.

Vilhelmsen, L. 2005. Chalinus albitibialis, a new species of Orussidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera), from Morocco. Zootaxa 880: 1-7.

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.

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