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Echthrodesis Masner

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Platygastridae; Subfamily: Scelioninae)

Echthrodesis Masner 1968. Type species: Echthrodesis lamorali Masner 1968.

Echthrodesis lamorali Masner, 1968

Distribution

Afrotropical region: South Africa.

Biology

Parasitoid of eggs of the intertidal spiders: Desis formidibalis (Desidae) and Amaurobioides africanus (Anyphaenidae).

Reference

Lamoral, B.H. 1968. On the ecology and habitat adaptations of two intertidal spiders, Desis formidabilis (O P- Cambridge) and Amaurobioides africanus Hewitt, at The Island (Kommetjie, Cape Peninsula), with notes on the occurrence of two other spiders. Annals of the Natal Museum 20: 151193.

Masner, L. 1968. A new scelionid wasp from the intertidal zone of South Africa (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 20: 195-198.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums).

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