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Parabaeus africanus Austin

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

Parabaeus africanus Austin, 1990. Type in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK).  Type locality: Malawi, Zomba, Zomba Plateau, 1571 m, 15°21'S.,35018'.

Distribution

Malawi.

Biology

Unknown.

References

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.

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

Photographs and line drawings © Andy Austin (University of Adelaide).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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