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Calosota species

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eupelmidae; Subfamily: Calosotinae; Genus: Calosota)

Calosota species. Specimen in Iziko South African Museum (SAMC).

Distribution

Indonesia (Java).

Biology

Parasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae (Anobiidae, Bostrichidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Curculionidae).

References

Hedqvist, K.J. 1970. Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eupelmidae. In B. Hanstrom, P. Brinck, and G. Rudebeck (Eds). South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. XIV, 402–443.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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

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