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Pristocera maxima (Turner)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Bethylidae; Subfamily: Pristocerinae;  Genus: Pristocera)

Dicrogenium maximum Turner, 1917, 65: 53-54. Holotype: in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: "Sierra Leone, Tamadu"

Taxonomy: Fahringer 1936, 1: 570-571, Benoit 1963, 119: 5, 10; Benoit 1963, 67: 6.

Distribution

Sierra Leone.

Biology

 Unknown.

References

Turner, R. E. 1917. New species of Hymenoptera in the British Museum. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 65: 53-84.

Zamprogno, L.N. & Azevedo, C.O. 2014. Phylogeny and reclassification of Pristocera Klug (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 45: 1-49.

Credits

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

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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