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Oreiscelio turneri Nixon

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

Oreiscelio turneri Nixon 1933. Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Port St Johns, South Africa

 

Distribution

Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South
Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Biology

 Host: unknown

Reference

 Nixon, G. E.J. 1933. A further contribution to the study of South African Platygastridae (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Proctotrupidae). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 12:288-324, 465-479,549-563.

Credits

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