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Orussus Latreille

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

Orussus Latreille, 1796 . Type species:

ClassificationIdentification keys
  Orussus afer Guiglia, 1937
  Orussus schoutedeni Guiglia, 1937
Orussus scutator (Benson, 1955)
  Orussus spinifer (Benson, 1955)
  Orussus tessmanni Enslin, 1913

Distribution

  

Biology

References

 

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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