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Deinodryinus piceus Olmi, Copeland & van Noort

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Dryinidae; Subfamily: Anteoninae, Genus: Deinodryinus)

Deinodryinus piceus Olmi, Copeland & van Noort, 2019. Holotype in San Francisco (CASC) (CASTYPE19456). Type locality: Toliara, Andohahela National Park, Tsimelahy, parcelle II, 24°56.21’S 46°37.60’E, 180 m, Madagascar.

Distribution

Madagascar.

Diagnosis

Macropterous female with head strongly punctate, unsculptured among punctures; frontal line absent; frons without lateral keels joining lateral ocelli to antennal toruli; posterior surface of pronotum with sharp lateral margins; mesosoma without strong constriction between prothorax and mesothorax; protarsomere 1 slightly shorter than 4; distal region of protarsomere 5 robust (Olmi et al, 2019).

Biology

Unknown.

References

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

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © 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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