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Crovettia
Olmi
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Chrysidoidea;
Family: Dryinidae; Subfamily:
Aphelopinae)
Crovettia Olmi, 1984. Type species:
Crovettia theliae (Gahan 1918), by original designation.
Biaphelopus Olmi 1984.
Type species:
Biaphelopus masneri Olmi 1984, by monotypy and
original designation. Synonymy by Olmi 1996.
Paraphelopus Olmi 1991: 120 Type species:
Paraphelopus townesi Olmi 1991, by original
designation. Synonymy by Olmi 1998.
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Crovettia afra
Olmi, Copeland & van Noort, 2019 |
Distribution
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Kenya, Madagascar.
Also
Australian, Oriental, Nearctic and Neotropical regions. |
Biology
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Hosts: Membracidae (Guglielmino & Olmi 1997).
Species of Crovettia are known for their completely
endophagous parasitism and poliembriony. Their biology was
studied in Nearctic species (Matausch 1909, 1911; Kornhauser
1916, 1917, 1919; Gahan 1918). |
References
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Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M. 1997. A host-parasite catalog of world
Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Contributions on Entomology,
International 2 (2): 165–298.
Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M.
2006. A host-parasite
catalog of world Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea): first supplement.
Zootaxa 1139: 35–62.
Guglielmino A, Olmi
M, Bückle C. 2013. An updated host-parasite catalogue of world Dryinidae
(Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Zootaxa 3740: 1–113. doi:
10.11646/zootaxa.3740.1.1
Olmi, M. 1984. A Revision of The
Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 37: 1-947.
Olmi, M. 1989.
Supplement to the Revision of the World Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea).
Frustula Entomologica, Nuova Serie, vol. 12: 109-395.
Olmi M. 2009. New species of
South African Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). African Invertebrates
50: 447–460.
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
and map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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