Scelio pulchripennis Brues

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Scelionidae; Subfamily: Scelioninae; Genus: Scelio)

Scelio pulchripennis Brues, 1906. Lectotype: in Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (MCZC). Type locality: Algoa Bay, South Africa.

Lectotype female

Non-type female

Distribution	South Africa. Link to distribution MAP (Hymenoptera online database).
Biology	Host unknown, but probably an egg parasitoid of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae (Orthoptera).
Reference	Brues, C.T. 1906. Descriptions of parasatic Hymenoptera from Cape Colony. Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. 4: 103-112. Yoder, M., Valerio, A., Polaszek, A., Masner, L., Johnson, N. 2009. Revision of Scelio pulchripennis-group species (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae). ZooKeys 20: 53-118. (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.20.205).
Credits	Photographs © Matt Yoder.
	Next genus: Shreemana Next species: Scelio remaudierei

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>).

Scelio pulchripennis Brues

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