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Gonatopus taylori Olmi

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

Gonatopus taylori Olmi, 1984. Holotype female in The Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Bugusaga, Uganda.

Reared from a host planthopper (Cicadellidae, Selenocephalinae) allied to the genus Ifeia (determination by Michael Stiller, 2022) (fourth photo showing dryinid larva attached to the host nymph) in a garden in Lynnwood, Pretoria. Photographs © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria).
 

Adult female reared from a host planthopper (Cicadellidae, Selenocephalinae) allied to the genus Ifeia (determination by Michael Stiller, 2022). Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

The adult host planthopper (Cicadellidae, Selenocephalinae) allied to the genus Ifeia - determination by Michael Stiller, 2022. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Distribution

Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda.

Biology

Unknown.

Reference

 Olmi, M. 1984. A Revision of The Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst., 37: 947-1913.

Olmi, M. & Copeland, R.S. 2011. A catalogue of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). African Invertebrates 52: 177–206.

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., van Noort, S. & Guglielmino, A. 2016. Contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera) with description of new species from Central African Republic and Uganda. ZooKeys 578: 45-95.

Ponomarenko, N.G. & Olmi, M. 2006. Dryinidae (Hym.) collected in Ethiopia by Dr Alexander F. Emelyanov, with descriptions of two new species. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 142: 7–10.

Credits

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

Photographs of living specimens © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria).

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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