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Olixon Cameron

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Rhopalosomatidae)

Olixon Cameron, 1887

Identification keys

Olixon dentatum (Cameron, 1904)

  Olixon majus Townes, 1977
Olixon martini Lohrmann, 2007
Olixon myrmosaeforme (Arnold, 1935)
Olixon saltator (Arnold, 1935)
Olixon toliaraensis Lohrmann & Ohl, 2007
Olixon species

Distribution

Afrotropical; Neartic; Neotropical and Australasian regions.

Biology

Ectoparasitoids of nymphal crickets (Gryllidae)

Reference

Arnold, G. 1935. The Psammocharidae of the Ethiopian region. Part IV. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15: 413-483, 34 figs.

Cameron, P. 1887. Insecta. Hymenoptera (Families Tenthredinidae –Chrysididae). Vol. 1. Biologia Centrali-Americana 33: 1–487.

Lohrmann, V. & Ohl, M. 2007. The wasp genus Olixon Cameron in Madagascar: first record and description of two new species (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae). Zootaxa 1465: 39-46.

Townes, H. 1977. A revision of the Rhopalosomatidae (Hymenoptera). Contributions of the Entomological Institute 15: 1-34.

Credits

Photographs © Victor Kolyada (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg); or Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town); or Volker Lohrmann (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe).


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