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Pedicrista hyalina Benson

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

Pedicrista hyalina Benson, 1935. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Doddieburn Ranch (Zimbabwe).

Classification

Pedicrista_hyalina_HT_BM1.1_ habitus_lateral Pedicrista_hyalina_HT_BM1.1_habitus_dorsal
Pedicrista_hyalina_HT_BM1.1_ head_frontal Pedicrista_hyalina_HT_BM1.1_ wings
Pedicrista_hyalina_HT_BM1.1_ labels  

Distribution

Zimbabwe, Malawi.

Biology

Unknown.

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.

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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