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Platyscelio Kieffer

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

Platyscelio Kieffer 1905. Type species: Platyscelio pulchricornis Kieffer by monotypy.


Afrotropical species:

Platyscelio africanus Risbec, 1956 (widespread in Afrotropical region)

Platyscelio mysterium Taekul & Johnson, 2010 (Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Platyscelio mzantsi Taekul & Johnson, 2010 (South Africa)


Indo-Australasian species:

 

Platyscelio arcuatus Taekul & Johnson, 2010 (Western Australia)

 

Platyscelio pulchricornis Kieffer, 1905 (Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam)

 

Platyscelio striga Taekul & Johnson, 2010 (Western Australia)


Distribution

Afrotropical, Australasian and Oriental regions. Link to distribution Map (Hymenoptera online database).

Biology

Egg parasitoids of Conocephalus species (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae).

Reference

Taekul, C., Johnson, N.F., Masner, L., Polaszek, A., Rajmohana, K. 2010. World species of the genus Platyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) ZooKeys 50: 97–126.

doi:10.3897/zookeys.50.485

Credits

Photographs © Charuwat Taekul (Ohio State University).

 

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