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Olixon Cameron

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

Olixon Cameron, 1887

 

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

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); Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town) and Volker Lohrmann (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe).


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