Distribution
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South Africa (Eastern and Western Cape Provinces).
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Distribution
of Sceliotrachelus species. Blue circle: Sceliotrachelus
braunsi; red circle: Sceliotrachelus karooensis; white
circle: Sceliotrachelus midgleyi. Biome map generated from
Rutherford et al. (2006). |
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Comparison of
selected characters for the three Sceliotrachelus species A–C
shape of inter-antennal process D–F post-occiput G–I genal sculpture J–L
fore wing M–O hind wing. A, D, G, J, M S. braunsi B, E, H, K, N
S. karooensis C, F, I, L, O S. midgleyi. |
Biology |
Unknown. |
References |
Brues, C.T. 1908.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Scelionidae. Genera
Insectorum 80: 1-59.
Masner. L. 1964. Remarks on Sceliotrachelus
Brues and allied genera (Hymenoptera, Platygasteridae).
Psyche,
71: 8-11.
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.
van Noort S, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Austin AD, Masner L,
Polaszek A, Johnson NF 2021.
Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline
parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds)
Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera
Research 87: 115–222.
https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.73770 |
Credits
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Photographs
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or © Zachary Lahey (OSUC).
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