Figures 263–268. Scelio ipomeae Risbec, female (OSUC
213040). 263 Habitus, dorsal view 264 Habitus, lateral view 265 Head and
mesosoma, dorsal view 266 Head and mesosoma, lateral view 267 Head,
anterior view 268 Base of metasoma, lateral view. T1, first metasomal
tergite. Scale bars in millimeters. |
Distribution
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Benin, Botswana,
Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Kenya, Nalawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen,
Zimbabwe.
Link to distribution
Map (Hymenoptera online database). |
Biology
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Solitary egg parasitoid of Locusta migratoria
(Linnaeus) [Orthoptera: Acrididae]. |
References
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Risbec,
J. 1950. Contribution à l'étude des Proctotrupidaw (Serphiidae). Proctotrupidés
des la Section technique d'Agricultures tropicale (A.O.F.) et Proctotrupidés du
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Afrique et Colonies françaises). Travaux
du Laboratoire d'Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques,
Gouvernement Générale de l'Afrique Occidentale Françaises. 639 pp. Yoder, M., Valerio,
A., Polaszek, A., van Noort, S., Masner, L., Johnson, N. 2014.
Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille
(Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera,
Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188. (doi:
10.3897/zookeys.380.5755).
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Credits
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Photographs © Matt Yoder. |
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