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Nixonia watshami Johnson & Masner

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Nixoniidae; Genus: Nixonia)

Nixonia watshami Johnson & Masner 2006. Holotype: in South African National Collection of Insects. Type locality: BOTSWANA: Serowe, Farmer’s Brigade.

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Egg parasitoid of armoured ground cricket, Acanthoplus discoidalis (Walker) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Hetrodinae).

Reference

Johnson, N.L & Masner, L. 2006. Revision of World Species of the Genus Nixonia Masner (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae) American Museum Novitates 3518: 1-32.

Credits

Photographs © Norman Johnson (Ohio State University Collection).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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