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Deinodryinus paulyi (Olmi) (Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily:
Chrysidoidea; Family:
Dryinidae; Subfamily:
Anteoninae,
Genus:
Deinodryinus)
Prioranteon paulyi
Olmi, 1987.
Holotype: female in the collection of Faculté des Sciences
Agronomiquws de l'Etat, Gembloux, Belgium (FAG). Type locality:
Tattaguine, Senegal.
Deinodryinus nigerensis
Olmi, 1990.
Holotype: male in National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC (USNM). Type locality:
Tarna goulbin, Maradi, Niger (synonymy by Olmi,
2007). |
Distribution
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Cape Verde Islands, Kenya, Namibia, Niger, Senegal. |
Biology
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Hosts: in Namibia, Aconurella compta, Exitianus
nanus and Exitianus okahandia (Cicadellidae).

Adult of Aconurella compta (Naudé), (length 3.4 mm) with
larval exuviae of Deinodryinus paulyi (Olmi); collected from Namibia, 40
km W Keetmanshoop.
Photograph
©
Massimo Olmi (Viterbo). |
References
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Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M. 2015.
Revision of the Afrotropical species of Deinodryinus Perkins, 1907
(Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), with description of a new species from Madagascar.
African Invertebrates 56: 229–259.
Olmi, M. 1987. New Species of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea).
Fragm. Entomol.,
Roma, 19: 371-456.
Olmi, M. 1990. Supplement to the revision of the world Dryinidae
(Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula ntomologica (N.S.) 12:
109–395.
Olmi, M. 2007. New species of Afrotropical Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), with description of
a new genus and a new subfamily. African Invertebrates, vol
48: 199-232.
Olmi, M. & Copeland, R.S.
& Guglielmino, A. 2015.
An updated checklist of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae
(Hymenoptera) of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of thirteen new
species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55(1):
333-380.
Olmi, M., Copeland, R.S. & van Noort, S. 2019.
Dryinidae of the
Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Zootaxa 4630: 1–619.
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4630.1.1
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Credits
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Photographs
©
Massimo Olmi (Viterbo). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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