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Chalcedectus sinaiticus (Masi)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Chalcedectidae; Genus: Chalcedectus)

 

Neochalcodectus sinaiticus Masi, 1936: 68. Syntypes 1♀ and 1♂ in Museo Civico di Storia Naturelle, “Giacomo Doria”, Genoa. Combination by Bouček (1959: 485).Type locality:
Chalcedectus niger Hedqvist, 1967: 180‒182. Holotype ♀ in (MHNG). Synonymy by Steffan (1968: 209).

Distribution

Algeria, Egypt (Sinai Peninsula), Iran, Israel.

Biology

Host: a larval parasitoid of species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz and Anthaxia Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) boring in Acacia raddiana [= Vachellia tortilis subsp. raddiana] (Fabaceae) (Hedqvist, 1967).

References

Cameron, P. 1884. Fam. Chalcididae. [continued] Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Families Tenthredinidae-Chrysididae.). 1:129-135.

Gibson, G.A.P. 2003, Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 16: 1-339.

van Noort S, Gibson GAP, Ranjith AP, Mitroiu M-D. 2026. Revision of Chalcedectidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from the Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic regions with description of eleven new species. Zootaxa 5781: 1-106. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5781.1.1

Credits

Photographs © Gary Gibson (CNC, Ottawa, Canada).

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

 

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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