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Bocchus watshami Olmi

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

Bocchus watshami Olmi, 1987. Holotype: Male in the collection of The Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK), England. Type locality: Gobabis, Namibia.

Bocchus simoni Olmi, 2005. Holotype: male in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, (SAMC). Type locality: Ibaya Camp, Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania. Synonymy by Olmi et al 2019.

Distribution

Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Olmi, M. 1987. Descrizone di nuove specie di Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Boll. Zool. agr. Bachic., Ser. II, 19: 31-70.

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

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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