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Heptascelio Kieffer

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

Heptascelio Kieffer 1916. Type species: Heptascelio lugens Kieffer 1916.

Identification key to femalesIdentification key to males

Afrotropical species:

Heptascelio albipes Masner, van Noort & Johnson
 

Heptascelio anthonyi Masner & Johnson
 

Heptascelio aquilinus Masner & Johnson
 

Heptascelio dispar Masner & Johnson

Heptascelio lateralis Johnson, van Noort & Masner
 

Heptascelio noyesi Masner & Johnson
 

Heptascelio orarius Johnson & Masner

 

Heptascelio striatosternus Narendran & Ramesh Babu 1996

Heptascelio strigatus Masner, Johnson & van Noort
 

Heptascelio teres Johnson & Masner
 

Heptascelio watshami Masner & Johnson

Distribution

Afrotropical, Oriental

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

Johnson, N. F., Masner, L., Musetti, L., van Noort, S., Rajmohana K., Darling, D.C., Guidotti, A., Polaszek, A. 2008. Revision of world species of the genus Heptascelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae). Zootaxa 1776: 1-51.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town).
 

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