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Scelio baoli Risbec

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

Scelio baoli Risbec 1950. Lectotype: in Museum National d'Histoire Naturellle, Paris. Type locality: Senegal: M'Bambey.

Distribution

Benin, Botswana, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Link to distribution Map (Hymenoptera online database).

Biology

 Host unknown, but probably an egg parasitoid of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae (Orthoptera)

References

Risbec, J. 1950. Contribution à l'étude des Proctotrupidae (Serphiidae). Proctotrupidés des la Section technique d'Agricultures tropicale (A.O.F.) et Proctotrupidés du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Afrique et Colonies françaises). Travaux du Laboratoire d'Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques, Gouvernement Générale de l'Afrique Occidentale Françaises. 639 pp.

Yoder, M., Valerio, A., Polaszek, A., Masner, L., Johnson, N. 2009. Revision of Scelio pulchripennis-group species (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae). ZooKeys 20: 53-118. (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.20.205).

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