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Parabaeus Kieffer

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

Parabaeus Kieffer 1910. Type species: Parabaeus ruficornis Kieffer (by original designation).

Afrotropical species
  Parabaeus africanus Austin, 1990
Parabaeus armadillus Austin, 1990
  Parabaeus peckorum Austin, 1990
  Parabaeus quasimodus Austin, 1990
  Parabaeus ruficornis Kieffer, 1910
Australasian species
  Parabaeus abyssus Austin, 1990

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Unknown.

Reference

Austin, A.D. 1990. A revision of Old World Parabaeus Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae), a group of highly modified apterous parsitoids inhabiting leaf litter. Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 647-659.

Kieffer. J.J. 1910. Diagnoses de nouveaux genres et de nouvelles espèces de Scélionides (Hym.) des Iles Séchelles. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1910, 292-4.

Masner L. & Huggert, L. 1989. World review and keys to genera of the subfamily Inostemmatinae with reassignment of the taxa to the Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 147: 1-214.

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