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Orussus scutator (Benson)

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

Heliorussus scutator Benson, 1955. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Moyamba (Sierra Leone).

Classification
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Orussus_scutator_HT_BM1-659_ head_frontal Orussus_scutator_HT_BM1-659_ labels

Distribution

Sierra Leone.

Biology

 Unknown.

References

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.

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.

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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