Distribution

Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Reunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda.

Biology

Parasitoid of sugar cane borer Eldana saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Gordh, 1986)

References

Azevedo CO, Garcia R, Gobbi FT & van Noort S. 2015. Insecta, Hymenoptera, Bethylidae: range extension and filling gaps in Central African Republic. Check List 11: 1-4.

Azevedo CO & van Noort S. 2018. Flat wasp fauna from Cousine island, Seychelles, with description of a new species of Holepyris (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Atoll Research Bulletin 615: 1-12. http://opensi.si.edu/index.php/smithsonian/catalog/book/179

Förster, A. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studen II. Chalcidiae und Proctotrupii. Aachen. Ernst ter Meer, Vol. 2, 152 pp.

Kieffer, JJ. 1912. No. IV. –Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2. 15: 45–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1912.tb00089.x.

Gordh, G. 1986. A new species of Goniozus Foerster 1851 from southern Africa parasitizing sugar cane borer, Eldana saccharina Walker, and taxonomic notes on species of the genus in Africa (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae; Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of
Southern Africa. 49: 257–265.

Gordh, G., & H. E. Evans. 1976. A new species of Goniozus imported into California from Ethiopia for the biological control of pink bollworm and some notes on the taxonomic status of Parasierola and Goniozus (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 78: 479-489.

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