Figures 79–84. Scelio janseni. 79–81 holotype
female (OSUC 222129), 82–84 paratype female (OSUC 212237). 79 Habitus,
dorsal view 80 Habitus, lateral view 81 Mesosoma, dorsal view 82 Head
and mesosoma, lateral view 83 Head, anterior view 84 Metasoma,
ventral-oblique view. Scale bars in millimeters. |
Distribution
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Cameroon,
Kenya, South Africa.
Link to distribution
Map (Hymenoptera online database). |
Biology
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Host unknown, but probably an egg parasitoid
of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae (Orthoptera). |
References
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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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